Well, I never said that. And now the goal of FIRE is to make 80k per year? You've based this on your large sample set of:
Go back to digging through trash and telling us that it paid for your vacation.
I also said $80,000 a year.
I'm pretty sure the only FIRE guy I know makes far more than $80,000 a year from his investments.
Some people enjoy digging through other people's "junk". Where do you think the video games you buy on ebay came from?
I know people that are independently wealthy that do this shit.
I know a guy with a math PHD and lucrative defense department Contracted research job that do this shit.
I know a guy with a Engineering PHD and consulting firm who gets flown all over the globe that does this shit.