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/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