I was wondering if some people here are applying the Mustachain lifestyle at a certain period of their life hoping to get ''rich enough'' / having an ''appreciable enough'' passive income to live a life they could never live otherwise, but whitout necessarily FIRE'ing?
Obviously, the terms ''rich enough'' and ''appreciable enough'' are very large and different for everybody, but basically, I'd like to know if any people here are saving and investing a lot now to live an expensive dream later that they couldn't live with regular income only? I'm not meaning investing now to buy useless sh** later, I'm thinking dreams like travelling, praticing an expensive sport, starting a business, etc., but probably doing it while still working?
For example, let's say John is a 30 y.o. middle class man with average income, sensitive to the value of money and the impact of his actual choices on his life in the future. His only hope of becoming ''rich enough'' is by investing a lot of his money now and for a certain period of time. To continue with the example, John happens to loves racing cars. But John knows that if he fully lives his hobby now, he won't be able to save for FI and other projects at the same time. But let's say he gets his numbers right and comes up with a strategy that would allow him to fully live his hobby at 40 y.o. while having a balance between his dream, FI, other projects and job.
Would it be something crazy to do?