People have grown rich supplying “rich boys” with toys!
It’s an honest trade. And where ever did you get the notion that the Tesla S was supposed to be an “everyman’s car’?
I have no problem with a company that takes a risk to provide a product to consumers willing to pay for the product.
What I do have a problem with, however, is their taking a $465 Million Dollar loan from the US Department of Energy to do that, regardless of whether they are going to pay it off early.
Subsidy of basic capitalism (not likely), subsidy of ‘green’ (likely) or for whatever reason, it has to have some benefit that can be realized by the taxpayer. To me THAT puts at least one of their offerings into that “everyman” thing you’re chiding me on. And, to that end, I don’t consider $62K-$82K ‘everyman’.
I will say this, however. The fact they are actually going to repay that loan is laudable. We’ll never recoup on GM, or Solyndra, or whoever this administration has given money to.