For a movement that provides little value or utility, FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) gets a lot of attention. FIRE proponents like the attention because, in the shell of the nut, the movement is more about them than us.
There's nothing more self-congratulatory than boasting about saving 50 to 75 percent of your income and retiring before you turn 40. Something 99.9 percent of the population will never and should never be expected to do. However, my dislike of FIRE goes beyond the low probability of the average, or even above average, person being able