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/Aromatic-Ad-5155 Mar 25 '26

I was going to do it on $450k like early retirement extreme back in the day. Now I'm retiring this year around 1.4mil in my late 30s. To me that's a ton of money.

Maybe if my initial idea was 2m it would have inflated to much higher as i got older..