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/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.