FIRE Movement Meet Workers Revolt

Home sweet home, When only people on passive incomes can afford a modestly spacious home, we've got a revolt on our hands.

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There is a movement in the generation entering the workforces called FIRE, standing for Finacial Independence Retire Early- the goal is to retire by forty, about the age when corporate employees start to worry about being considered over the hill.

This generation has never known what it is like to live in a society with a strong middle class rather than a society of haves and have nots and an almost impassable void between them. The youth of the Fire movement wants to be in the haves but in so doing they become dependent on the entrenched paradigm that they seek to escape.

Millennials and Generation Xers blame the Baby Boomers for accumulating extreme wealth and stealing the future of the current generations.

The newest generation wants to be the wealthy elite as long as they perceive themselves to have a shot at it. Unlike the Baby Boomer generation, they are not starting out their journey as idealistic flower children, they just want to be the winners …