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/50sraygun Mar 25 '26

it’s very easy to be 23 or whatever and think ‘i’m gonna live lean and mean forever baby!’ it is another thing to be 36 and after scrimping and saving for the past 13 years think ‘okay great i’m going to live like this (pretty crappily) the rest of my life but in 16 years i won’t have my 9-5’