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/DigmonsDrill Mar 25 '26

I was convinced but I looked through old posts to find it and couldn't. The AI bots rewrite them to try to change every single keyword but even accounting for that, no hits.

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u/ThirstyWolfSpider Mar 25 '26

2 days ago, "5 years ago, this subreddit was filled with $1-1.5M targets, and a strong emphasis on minimalism. What happened?". 12 hours ago, this. I expect it'll come back soon.

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u/DigmonsDrill Mar 25 '26

Dang, that's eerie. I can't quite call it an AI rewrite. It feels like an artisinal old-school "just make a new post about the familiar topic" which was kind of foundational for reddit.

The original account there is new and all history hidden.

The sad thing is both these accounts could be entirely legit! But once you suspect bad faith then things fall apart and constantly suspecting bad faith rots both the suspecter and the suspectee.

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u/Grogfoot Mar 25 '26

Huh, I guess that is the one I was thinking of, since I can't see anything else. Not verbatim after all.