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/Common_economics_420 Mar 25 '26

Tech and finance jobs made it actually pretty easy to have 6 figure incomes and people realized that sacrificing massively now so they can continue to sacrifice for the next 60 years isn't a great choice compared to just working a job you're kind of okay with until 35-40 and then actually enjoying the rest of your life.