• MF_COOM [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      16·
      6 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 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        6 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.

    • AcidLeaves [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      11·
      6 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