For the middle class, money is not distinguishable from the instrumental recipes they have learned to make it. You crank this handle 40 hours a week, paychecks come out the other end. It’s mostly financial apathy punctuated by the occasional acute anxiety attack.
Sorry, no it’s not. The whole FIRE crowd is doing what Bruce Sterling calls “acting dead”. Doing a radical cost-down of lifestyle and paying a significant social cost is not actual freedom, it’s degeneration.
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Your description may be accurate in some cases but definitely isn’t universal wrt FIRE. For some (like me) it’s not about self denial but accurately calibrating what actually brings happiness and gaining freedom from wanting the (many) things that don’t.
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Imo your perception of FIRE is uncharacteristically shallow and inaccurate
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