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Remember this: Financial Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of responsible financial management are happening constantly throughout the country. Some PMETS, tribes and subcultures do not know they have enlisted in the cause.

Remember that the frontier of the FIRE movement is everywhere. Even the smallest act of saving for passive income pushes our lines forward.

And remember this: your company HR's need for control is desperate because it is unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Your golden handcuffs are brittle. Oppression from your bosses and the toxic work are the masks of fear.

Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these attempts to skimp and save, these moments of getting investment income, will have flooded the banks of your employer’s authority, and then there will be one too many. One single cent getting into your bank account outside your employment will break the siege.