@pixelsage If I tried to fake a post illustrating why this spergy FIRE mentality is ridiculous, as most people approach it, I could hardly have done it better than this one.
You are apparently unhappy. You apparently have little to no "rewarding" close relationships (no, I don't mean transactional rewarding where they make money for you)
- and the main relationship you did have basically lived and died by the sword of income, status and "hustling" (vomit). Reading that part especially part of me thinks this all must be a fake bit you're doing just for Reddit.
You seem unhappy with your profession in and of itself, and will probably never find satisfaction in your actual work because your only goal is apparently to *not work*, even while you are going to be in your prime working years.
You probably won't even know where to begin understanding how to value the things that a price can't be put on, that make up a truly holistically rich life. Even if you go sperg out reading books and blogs for "many years" about that too, you will fail if you treat it as a metric to be obtained, a balance in a proverbial account to acquire and look at. Life doesn't work so well that way.
and yet ironically you do seem to make comment grasping the pointlessness of doing anything for millionaires to make more millions. It would almost be better if you just hadn't YET been exposed to that realisation
If you do retire into some life of passive wealth by your 40s or something, the few, FEW people who will still be sort of casually available to open their lives to someone like you will all only be unpleasant, transactional, calculating weirdos themselves. These things don't come easily at those ages and I can basically promise you the people who end up in the same boat and open to joining you in life at that point, there will usually be some reason why they ended up that way too, and it won't be that good.
You are wasting your life. You are motivated by fear and by negative comparison. Literally forget all this BS and do something you actually find meaningful and fun with people you find beautiful, fun and/or inspiring, if that even exists for you anymore.
And as others have said, stop coming to Reddit for validation about this sad mentality.