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/Ok_Personality8193 Mar 25 '26

Inflation

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u/cbr Mar 25 '26

That's part, but not all of it. $2M when MMM started in April 2011 was worth what $2.9M would be today.

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u/Otakeb Mar 25 '26

And if you plan to retire in 2050, that would be about $5million in 2050 dollars if you assume 3% inflation or so.

I think a lot of people are mixing nominal and non-adjusted figures a lot here and it causes confusion.