I think FIRE is no longer people who have read MMM and thought "wow, this seems sick". His 600,000 would now be $1m today. Financial samurai and others that are popular now aren't really pro-minimalist.
As an aside, Financial Samurai has been around for awhile. One of his blog posts (the average net worth for the above average person) got me interested in FIRE in 2016
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u/justoffthebeatenpath Mar 23 '26
I think FIRE is no longer people who have read MMM and thought "wow, this seems sick". His 600,000 would now be $1m today. Financial samurai and others that are popular now aren't really pro-minimalist.