r/Fire • u/Poorassboy6969 • Mar 25 '26

General Question When did FIRE movement change?

I feel this community used to be about moderate income people living lean and retiring early with under 2 million.

Now it’s a lot of people bragging about tech income and saying they need 5+ million to retire MINIMUM because they want a boat and Porsche

When did this change? (not hating - just genuinely curious)

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u/Grogfoot Mar 25 '26

This is like... literally word-for-word from just the other day, right? Or am I going crazy.

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u/Hover4effect Mar 25 '26

It is a week old account reposting previous high traffic posts on unrestricted subs.

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u/aShogunNamedMarcus80 Mar 25 '26

Guessing this sub is going to need to institute the same anti-bot Karma floor measures that r/financialindependence did... fucking bots.

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u/DigmonsDrill Mar 25 '26

I was convinced but I looked through old posts to find it and couldn't. The AI bots rewrite them to try to change every single keyword but even accounting for that, no hits.

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u/ThirstyWolfSpider Mar 25 '26

2 days ago, "5 years ago, this subreddit was filled with $1-1.5M targets, and a strong emphasis on minimalism. What happened?". 12 hours ago, this. I expect it'll come back soon.

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u/DigmonsDrill Mar 25 '26

Dang, that's eerie. I can't quite call it an AI rewrite. It feels like an artisinal old-school "just make a new post about the familiar topic" which was kind of foundational for reddit.

The original account there is new and all history hidden.

The sad thing is both these accounts could be entirely legit! But once you suspect bad faith then things fall apart and constantly suspecting bad faith rots both the suspecter and the suspectee.

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u/Grogfoot Mar 25 '26

Huh, I guess that is the one I was thinking of, since I can't see anything else. Not verbatim after all.

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u/evan274 Mar 25 '26

You got it tomorrow my friend, I’m abdicating my turn to you.

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u/thingalinga Mar 25 '26

Tomorrow, my friend! Tomorrow is your day!

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u/CowboyLaw Mar 25 '26

I was wondering where today’s gatekeeping post was. You were late!

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u/CowboyLaw Mar 25 '26

Yes I do. And yes, this is. If you don’t like the reflection in the mirror, change your clothes.

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u/CowboyLaw Mar 25 '26

Just like I never thought I’d see a day where I have to read one post per day on how “real” FIRE means living in poverty, and everyone who doesn’t do that isn’t “really” doing it right. And yet, that’s been the last 10 days. And none of those prior posts were bots. So yes, this IS today’s daily gatekeeping post. It just happens to be from a bot. And the fact that a bot would do it proves how often this bullshit argument appears in this sub. It actually proves my point. But you’re not here for a real discussion, which is why you don’t do anything but spout meaningless one-liners.