monkFIRE
(this is not for everyone,
not for the ones wearing all White,
you have a different path,
wait for your turn
but if you're the One
you'll know the answer inside)
Two Categories of Living
At its core, human life can be sliced into two layers of experience:
Primary parameters, and the rest — the ornamental clutter we obsess over.
Strip away the brands, the salary brackets, the GPS coordinates — and you'll find the same scaffold.
A high-frequency trader on Wall Street and a wandering nomad in the steppes of Mongolia...
Aren’t as different.
We’re told the trader “has more opportunities.”
But what are they exactly?
Fancier haircuts?
Access to advanced medicine?
Sure, maybe. But what medicine, and how often does he actually use it?
Yes, perhaps the nomad can't afford dental implants. But how much of that is due to money, and how much is the natural entropy of chewing reality raw?
Maybe the trader sips single-origin espresso in some designer café.
The nomad drinks salty milk tea under the open sky.
In the grand matrix of being — who’s really richer?
Yes, one drives a Tesla and the other rides a yak.
Yes, one has an espresso subscription and the other boils milk over firewood.
But when you strip it down — food, sleep, warmth, a few laughs, a body to drag around —
they live shockingly similar lives.
The core variables — the primary properties — are almost identical for most people.
Unless you're enslaved in some uranium mining site, we all follow the same loop:
We sleep.
We eat.
We shit.
We distract ourselves.
We grind.
We learn.
We exchange breath with a few humans nearby.
Yes, the details vary — age, character archetypes, context.
But the structure? The joys? The bones of it? Same across the board.
Where life diverges is in the secondary parameters —
the aesthetic wrappers, the ego-massage services, the glittery nothings.
The 80/20 Delusion
Most people screw up the ratio.
They bleed 80% of their energy chasing the 20% fluff:
comforts, consumerism, dopamine-drip crap they don’t even need.
But if you’re walking the path of 42 —
truly walking it —
you don’t need to run off to a monastery.
In fact, I wouldn’t even recommend it.
See, the Insider once said (2005, figure known as “Insider” surfaced on an obscure internet forum):
“You can feed yourself working just a couple of hours a day.”
And it’s true.
Food. Shelter. Minimal healthcare. That’s it.
And here’s the kicker:
There are countless places — possibly even inside your own country —
where that costs next to nothing.
Energy structure of the city
Cities exist to offer “more.”
But they charge more too.
If you’re not using 90% of the “extra” they sell you,
why the fuck are you still paying five times more for rent and food?
If you’ve chosen to dedicate your life to your fire, your search,
then you damn well better act like it.
You gotta dare.
You gotta bet your life.
Not in theory. For real.
Don’t be like the eternal pretenders —
the ones who talk, joke, dream, but never take any step
because every real step feels “insane.”
No.
You bet the whole damn thing.
That’s how it’s done.
Life in wealthy cities and countries is expensive.
They offer choices and comfort.
But if you don’t need them — why stay plugged in?
Move out to the margins — 50 miles, 100 kilometers from the city grid.
Still close enough for emergency medicine.
Buy a plot of land for dirt cheap.
Get reacquainted with wild grass and sky.
Touch the Earth more often.
You don’t need to be a millionaire to do this.
Not anymore.
In today’s world, the smart move is simple:
Drain the wealth from rich economies, then vanish into F.I.R.E.
Forget monasteries.
This way, you can dedicate your whole life to THIS —
whatever this means to you.
Now, if you can become a millionaire — good. Do it.
Protect yourself. Money matters.
But not everyone starts from the same position.
And time’s bleeding out of your wrists every morning.
And most people never even figure out what they were supposed to do here.
So get clear:
What’s your real endgame?
What’s the absolute minimum you need?
Prepare a plan, dedicate some years to achieve the point
Then go.
