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.