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Absolutely yes.

If you follow the FIRE people, and are reasonably good at math, it is ridiculous how little you need to have in order to never again need a job.

We like to keep score. There has to be another way to do that, other than piling up enormous “wealth”.

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I love thinking of the FIRE movement as showing us how llttle you actually need for financial independence!

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Yes, but I think it goes hand in hand with a good social security net: if your are not afraid to have to pay a ridiculous amount of money for hospital, your kids education or a place to live, it makes it a lot easier to have a cap.

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This is a great point. So much of our drive for wealth accumulation is because, as it is, we have to build our own safety nets.

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Yes. Period. Watching the middle class disappear and the working class swim upstream is so disheartening. The future of America is bleak AF.

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