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Time Article on the Cult of ER

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AdrianC:
A Growing Cult of Millennials Is Obsessed With Early Retirement.
http://time.com/money/5241566/vicki-robin-financial-independence-retire-early/

Point me to it if already being discussed...the search function isn't so great...

Missing is any acknowledgment of the privilege embedded in the ability to save 50% or 75% of your income to begin with. The FIRE movement, to a large extent, remains a culture of “very entitled white men who are very proud of themselves when it wasn’t much of a stretch for them anyway,” says Emma Pattee, 27, a writer based in Portland, Ore., who retired last year at 26 after making successful real estate investments. Many FIRE followers, she says, are already high earners who “disdain all the Midwest minions who can’t get out in front of their truck loan.”

Thoughts?

No doubt I won the ovarian lottery. But then so did many of my peers...

DS:
https://www.google.com/search?q=mrmoneymustache+forum+http%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2Fmoney%2F5241566%2Fvicki-robin-financial-independence-retire-early%2F&oq=mrmoneymustache+forum+http%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2Fmoney%2F5241566%2Fvicki-robin-financial-independence-retire-early%2F&aqs=chrome..69i57.4065j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8


https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/mustachianism-around-the-web/article-a-growing-cult-of-millennials-is-obsessed-with-early-retirement/

AdrianC:
Thanks. Lesson learned - use Google to search.

solon:
Here's a little tutorial I put together that automates the tip in DS's post:

https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/forum-information-faqs/how-to-search-the-forum/

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