[witty_username]

From https://www.evunite.com/blog/tesla-owner-demographics/ :

> Based on data pulled from 2,650 Tesla owners, the average household income of a Tesla Model X owner is $143,177 per year.

> The average household income of a Tesla Model S owner is $153,313 per year.

> This compares to the United States national medium household income of $78,500.

143k is about the 85th percentile ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United... )

So, this is at least upper middle class.

[tayo42]

Idk if the lifestyle is really that special. I think US income is just heavily weighted towards the bottom. Middle class is disappearing as wages stay low for most people. Tech isn't rich, just comparatively. Tech salaries are what almost Americans should be paid.

[failwhaleshark]

Yeap. Since the 1970's and Reaganomics, the middle-class was continuously decimated to almost nothing.

In the US: you're either in tech or banking/finance, or you're shoveling coal to earn your cockroach protein block. From where I sit from yet another overpriced goddamn gentrification ivory "mixed-use development" tower of yuppies, I can see 50 tents of homeless people. This wasn't the case in the '80's.

[atwebb]

It is also an average, does Elon count as a Telsa owner?

Also that article says medium instead of median, besides the spelling issue, average and median aren't comparable.

[wskinner]

Your census data is 7 years out of date. Has anything changed since then?

[dogma1138]

Middle class does not mean median income.

[paulpauper]

not too suprising if it is paid for on credit or leased