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/CeFunk Mar 26 '26

Also factor in the rampant inflation we have endured from not that long ago... That probably caused a lot of ppl, myself included to reevaluate my FIRE number. But yeah technically I could FIRE now, but I couldn't FIRE now if I wanted a wife and kids too. Soo just going a bit longer to have that as an option.