Vandalism is not necessarily covered in each fully comprehensive insurance and not at all with partial. Additionally the owner has to cover potential damages to the environment caused by the fire and leakages. My parents had to cover multiple thousand bucks for leaking gasoline into a nearby pond after their cars have been set on fire.

The Tesla Model Y has been the best selling car for months if not years and if it was not the top 1 or 10% buying multiple of these cars, they will have been bought by regular citizens.

Talking about the top 1% or even 10% by wealth we will be in the region of at least multiple million dollars of net worth.

So no, burning private cars - especially the ones parked on public streets - will not harm the rich nor the company.

5 years ago, the regular, non-terminally online citizen probably thought of him as the internet genius he and the media portrayed him to be.

Destroying private property in protest is just stupid. Take on the cooperations, but not the other 99% trying to get by.

I’m not surprised. Profs and PIs are scientists first and often not really trained to manage people. Paired with big egos, the exploitation of non-EU PhD students appears rather common in academia.