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Tesla owners are typically white men earning six figures (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Tesla owners are overwhelmingly men, and the most common occupations are engineer, software engineer, and manager of operations, one study found.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The use of “six figures” as a measure of affluence goes back to at least the 60’s… if we use 1970 as a baseline, a salary of $100,000 then is $800,000 today, accounting for inflation.

Inflation isn’t the whole picture , but helps to demonstrate how dated the phrase is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is interesting, thank you for this. Makes me feel less bad