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>For These Women, a FIRE That Burns Too Male and Too White

>Fed up with the bro-heavy archetype of the FIRE trend (“financial independence, retire early”), women are carving out their own niche in the frugal-living movement.


>Kiersten Saunders stumbled upon the FIRE movement — an acronym for “financial independence, retire early” — the way most people do: by reading about it online. But also like most people, she couldn’t relate to its membership, which seemed largely white, male and based in Silicon Valley.

>“When I first started looking at the FIRE blogs, it was a bit of a culture shock,” says Mrs. Saunders, 34, a marketing director in Atlanta. “As a black American and as a woman, I knew that I wouldn’t be able to replicate exactly what they did.”

[...]

>“A lot of FIRE blogs, while well intentioned, can be very tone deaf,” Mrs. Saunders says. “They have these lean plans that are like, ‘Oh, we live on Onions and frozen burritos, and that’s how we’re able to save 50 percent of our income.’ And it’s like, ‘O.K., but what about the other things that life sometimes requires? Where’s the budget for taking care of your mother-in-law?’”

>Frustrated by the lack of diversity in the FIRE world, Mrs. Saunders and her husband, Julien, started their own personal finance blog in 2015, Rich & Regular. Today, she is part of a rapidly growing cohort of women who are forging their own FIRE community.

[...]

>“There’s this mind-set in FIRE discussions that you have to cut out everything that’s not essential, but what’s essential to a white male is very different from what’s essential to me,” says Mrs. Saunders

[...]

>“There’s a cost to maintaining this Afro,” she adds.

I fucking give up. You can read the rest here: https://archive.fo/Ai35Z

>> No.14091103

>>14090940
I didn't bother reading the article because I've already seen examples of women being able to pull it off so whatever this article will say about women not being able to do the FIRE meme is bullshit. I really hope /pol/ wasn't right and it's just her being stupid and prioritizing her hair out of stupidity instead of what I hear about black people only living in the moment

>> No.14091208

>>14091103
Well it's the New York Times, of course it's bullshit.

But an article like this can be a harbinger of things to come. They keep this up and by 2023 the Dems will be politically and culturally on track to demand reparations from whiteys retiring early and shit.

>> No.14091228

>>14090940
shes just trying to get ppl to visit her blog etc

>> No.14091532

>>14091208
shit like that will never pass. If they're dumb enough to pass something like that, all the rich people in the US will get up and leave, taking most of the nation's value with them

>> No.14091598

if lateesha can help shaniqua save a few bucks a week, sounds like a good thing to me :^)

>> No.14091610

>>14090940
The US is going to be lit when it reaches 10% white or so like South Africa in 40 years especially when African immigration picks up come the next Democratic administration.

>> No.14091628

FIRE requires extreme longterm planning, short-term denial and the appearance to those around you that you're a lot more poor than you really are... aka nothing that has to do with niggers.

>> No.14091642

>>14090940
nigs hate Whites until they need EBT/SNAP etc. it's incredible how fucking useless they are

>> No.14091662

>>14091642

And black women themselves are the biggest cancer.

>> No.14091855

>>14091628
>short-term denial
such as?

>> No.14091984

>>14091855
FIRE people are known for extreme frugality, aka timing how many months (or years) was the last meal they ate out, doing laundry at off peak hours to save money on electricity bills and putting every conceivable penny they have available into investments.

>> No.14092831

>>14090940
why do they have to make everything about gender and race?

>> No.14092936

>>14092831
Well one catchy term is bioleninism, but I believe in a more charitable alternative.

You know how we evolved to love fats and sugars? Then, bam, modernity happens and we've got zero time to adopt moderation and the obesity epidemic happens?

Religions and tribal traditions seemingly evolved the same way, and atheism left a gaping hole where the desire for those things lives, so now a lot of people adopt progressivism as their religion. Gender and race focuses are just different denominations.

Weekly/daily sermons, imminent apocalypse, the evil outgroup, original sin, even a liturgical calendar, they're all there.

Once you see it you can't unsee it.

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14092977

>>14090940
When did discipline become such a lost art?

>> No.14092994

>>14092936
Ah, yes I read some of Moldbug. A secular religion description also applies to coin maximalism, especially bitcoin.
My post was more of a rhetorical question, it's just so fucking tiring.

>> No.14093082

>>14092994
Then it's not tiring, you're witnessing the exciting birth of a new religion! Obviously stay out of the way and have a plan to escape the west before the imminent religious genocide, but memeplexes like this only emerge once every century, if that.

>> No.14093102

>>14092994
The real answer is for money. They can't compete on merit alone, but they can carve out a niche of relevance even with an inferior product by appealing to negros and women

>> No.14093335

>>14091984
>into investments
Such as? Index funds?

>> No.14093481

>>14093335
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started