• MF_COOM [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      20·
      5 months ago

      Unless you’re an entertainer or athlete or something and you can just sell your labour in a way that everyone wants to pay to consume specifically your labour you’re inevitably building your wealth on the labour of poor people

      • Hexamerous [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        9·
        5 months ago

        Yeah, FIRE is just living off dividends. If you coupled that with a steady treat supply, you’re just doing labor aristocracy/petty-bourgeois shit. I doubt most of these people plan to retreat to a small house, grow their own food, fuel and stop treat consumption for sustainable living.

      • TheWolfOfSouthEndEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        I don’t follow football, but this morning I was reading a post about a somewhat local to me footballer, and how he still owns his first car, “so he doesn’t forget his roots”. There were loads of comments how much money he was worth. The man grew up in a terraced house and got where he is due to football skills. But Bezos or Richard Branson earned their money. Boggles the mind.

    • AcidLeaves [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      15·
      5 months ago

      Almost impossible, some sort of base super structure theory going on here?

      Anyways I kind of did that except I didn’t penny pinch, just tried to min max financial strategies (credit cards, options trading, interest rates, etc.) but like, maybe 60% of the extent of what FIRE guys do. Still way more than the average person

      And tbh, yea, I did end up becoming somebody who’s weird with money and wealth despite intellectually being radicalized and now I’m still trying to unlearn all of that

      I was never reactionary or a neoliberal even before radicalization, I was just thinking about money far too much