Do you think it’s because disciplined people tend to be successful or only successful people have the means to compete in an ironman?
Your answer reveals a lot about whether you’ll be successful or not.
Is this temporary, or a permanent trend due to AI replacing office workers?
Some friends who retired earliest took brutal high-pressure jobs in their 20s. Walked away early 30s with several million. Done.
Rest of us picked chill high-paying gigs. Way less money, much less stress. We’ll hit their 30-year-old net worth around 40.
To those who went full intensity mode, was it worth it?
Every FIRE person I know was already wired for delayed gratification. Like, it’s not even close.
Literally never seen someone go from big spender or YOLO mindset to a FIRE mindset. Not once.
People parroting “overhiring” need to wake up. That correction already happened in 2023. No serious company keeps overhired staff around for 3 extra years. That’s not how this works.
Revenue and profit per employee have 2x’d since pre-pandemic. Those aren’t overhiring correction numbers. Those are “AI is doing the work” numbers.
Let’s be honest: this is workforce reduction to max shareholder returns enabled by AI increasing productivity.
FIRE is a necessity in today’s world.
It’s been telling people to rent all this time, and look at how that turned out. When the model is wrong, stop relying on it. Just because it has a fancy NYT name on it doesn’t mean it’s correct.