I'm reading a lot about financial planning and investing lately. Feel like I'm now in the place where it would be good to get my ducks in a row and think seriously about things like buying a house or dividend investments or not. Most of the landscape is either FIRE-self-immolation-BS, written by and for boomers, scammers or idiots. There's gotta be a financial strategy out there for millenials like me that's doesn't include either "adulting" or "inheritance tax", and I'm bound to find it and/or build it.
you should reconsider your opinion on early retirement. although i'm not sure what you were trying to say there just save money. it's a comparative advantage, because almost everyone spends an incredible amount of money all the time for no reason
I'm not against a proper saving plan, nor against frugality, and I am envious of those who succeed in their early retirement. The part that I don't like is how the collective failure to maintain a proper social security net and reasonable student financing has been individualized and accepted to such a degree, that it has resulted in a movement of blogs idolozing saving percentages so that you can buy your freedom as if we're actually living in a meritocracy. "YOU TOO can escape the serfdom of debt, but only if you're working hard enough at self-inflicted poverty!" My impression of FIRE may he biased and there's good parts in everything, but it's that part that I hate.