Såg en artikel om FIRE av Jared Dillian som brukar ta rollen “10 mannen vars uppgift är att inte hålla med” i en grupp. Även om man inte håller med så brukar det vara bra att utmana sin egen tanke. Sedan får man också ta hans tonalitet med en nypa salt, ungefär som Nassim Taleb som tycker att alla är idioter. 
Notera att jag inte håller med honom om allt, men det finns ingen poäng med att forumet ska bli en eko-kammare heller. Och nej, du behöver inte känna dig träffad. Se det lite som underhållning och popcorn. 
Här kommer några klipp:
I am not a big fan of unstructured free time. If you’re like me, you probably know some Boomers who have retired poorly. […] You will accomplish nothing. You will live a life without accomplishment or purpose. But that’s not even the worst part.
The worst part is that you will spend every waking moment hawking over the movements of the stock market. If the stock market goes up, you can stay retired. If the stock market goes down, and stays down, you will have to get a job, […] Retiring at age 35 sounds interesting in principle, but it in practice, it would be hell. Imagine being completely idle and have nothing to do except worry about your small pile of money turning to dust.
To deny yourself a lifetime of material possessions is insanity. You’re not Gandhi. The FIRE movement is not a savings and investment movement. It is an anti-consumption movement, and it has its roots in environmentalism. If you don’t buy something, it won’t end up in the landfill, and you will lead an entire life without any impact on the planet. These people are the cheapest of cheap fucks on the planet, because they believe that consumption is evil . They will agonize and obsess over a dollar. All their kids are going to end up in therapy.
The one thing that all the FIRE people have in common is that they hate work . Like, they really, really hate their jobs. I have a theory on this. Happy people like their jobs, unhappy people don’t. It doesn’t matter what job they have; unhappy people will be unhappy no matter what they are doing. They talk about the “soul-destroying” 40-hour work week.
I’ll go further and say these people are lazy pieces of shit. Can you imagine employing one of these people, plotting and scheming to do as little work as possible, counting the days until retirement, shirking and malingering, creating negative value in the process? Imagine a person whose goal is to produce nothing, consume nothing, and merely exist , stealing everyone else’s oxygen in the process.
The one thing you consistently hear from the FIRE folks is that they are quitting their jobs to pursue their dreams . I don’t know about you, but I can only spend so many hours a day pursuing my dreams. Like, I can’t DJ all the time. I simply could not fill the hours. You know what I can do all the time? Work. Because my vocation is my avocation; I am a writer, and writing is work, but also fun. I spend twelve hours a day doing what I love.
My audience tends to be finance people, and most finance people think the FIRE movement is pretty dumb, so I am preaching to the converted. I don’t want to consume nothing and produce nothing—I want to produce a lot and consume a lot. That is pretty much what life is all about. Live hard and leave a smoking crater.
Just because we have possessions, doesn’t mean our possessions own us. Stuff isn’t who we are—relationships are more important. But go out and buy a new Rolex and tell me that stuff doesn’t make you happy. The Rolex doesn’t make you happy—it was the virtues it took to make the money that you bought it with, which is something the FIRE people will never understand.
de jag känner som är FIRE eller har planer ink jag själv letar inte efter “unstructured free time”.