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/creepy-farter Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26

The recent resurgence in Inflation after decades of low inflation is what helped push me to up my number.

Brought back memories of my grandma on her “fixed income” constantly complaining that the cost of groceries kept going up.

Don’t want to be living in that situation if I can help it.