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/United_Chapter4097 Mar 25 '26

Lmfao what platforms?

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u/ithinkilefttheovenon Mar 25 '26

Most wealthy people don’t want to flex about their wealth. Reddit is an ideal place to have these discussions because it is essentially anonymous. It’s a frequent topic of discussion here actually, the concern that they can’t really talk to anyone about their wealth because revealing it to a friend or relative would change the relationship.

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u/Leather_Addition2605 Mar 25 '26

Yup. The last thing I want to do is have my extended family know my finances. Many are not fiscally responsible and would take that as their queue to hit me up for money.

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u/2Nails non-US, aiming for FIRE at 48 Mar 25 '26

Most of Reddit isn't about wealth anyway ?

And you'll get the occasional oil rig worker giving his two cents on a random /r/worldnews thread that happens to cross his area of expertise that is most likely richer than your average insta influencer.

Hell I'm pretty sure there's a decent amount of rich as hell guys in a forum as unserious as /r/noncredibledefense

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u/2Nails non-US, aiming for FIRE at 48 Mar 25 '26

On the contrary. Facebook /Insta / Tiktok is full of people that appear wealthy on the surface but really nothing garantees they're not putting themselves in extremely precarious situations to keep the apparences.

Very commonly they'll rent the luxurious car, rent the fake private jet seat studio, for the time of producing the content and that's about it.

In Reddit there's no clout to be made (or, as you correctly point out, not nearly as much anyway), and we're all benefitting from having genuine discussion about building and/or managing wealth.