The thing with FIRE movement is more about escaping being forced to work soul sucking jobs, commuting, management, mindless boring tasks.... And it's not always easy to change fields, or change company, move city, ....
People that I know that are already FIREd or plan to don't actually intend not to work. They want to, but on things they actually enjoy. If there was UBI the FIRE movement would go significantly down because one of it's main goals would be achieved by default. Right now the only way to get those goals is with passive income from investments.
We have this one life, and wasting it is not the way to go. FIRE people don't want the riches or hoarding insanes amount of money for power trips with their buddies. Most are very frugal in fact, that's the only way to achieve FIRE in the firs place. They just want the freedom from forced work. That is the essence of the FIRE movement.
People that I know that are already FIREd or plan to don't actually intend not to work. They want to, but on things they actually enjoy. If there was UBI the FIRE movement would go significantly down because one of it's main goals would be achieved by default. Right now the only way to get those goals is with passive income from investments.
We have this one life, and wasting it is not the way to go. FIRE people don't want the riches or hoarding insanes amount of money for power trips with their buddies. Most are very frugal in fact, that's the only way to achieve FIRE in the firs place. They just want the freedom from forced work. That is the essence of the FIRE movement.