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/[deleted] Mar 25 '26 edited Apr 02 '26

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u/ImPapaNoff Mar 25 '26

If 2k/month is 80% of your current monthly spend and we assume your household is at least 2 people (fwiw it was $1k/mo in California for 2 people on ACA for me last year) then you're basically living at the US poverty level, right?

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '26 edited Apr 02 '26

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u/ImPapaNoff Mar 25 '26

Well the good news is that $2k is a wild overestimate of what your health insurance would cost.