![]() ![]() ![]() So if you make money on your blog? Great job! I know how much work it is to write a blog and keep it going, and I believe people deserve to be compensated for their work. Let me make this completely clear: I do not think that making money from your blog is the problem here. Reality Mismatch and the Incomplete Message That Creates We need to be both encouraging and realistic, and sometimes full realism is what’s missing. This may be the one and only time I ever complain about a group of people being too positive, but the fundamental conflict is that if we make early retirement seem too easy to achieve, or too simple mathematically, we lead folks down the primrose path to potential financial ruin later in life, at exactly the time when they are least equipped to deal with it, because they simply did not save enough to weather all the future unknowns that none of us can control. The predicament I see with FI blogs is, interestingly, that many are too encouraging. We’re at our best as a community when we push each other to be better, and this is my big nudge to all of us, including to myself. This is a manifesto of what FIRE bloggers owe our readers. That post started some great discussions, and I was pleased to see a few more bloggers disclose their blog income as a result. (Bottom line: nearly every retired FI blogger draws significant income from their blog, and therefore isn’t actually testing the approach to early retirement that they espouse.) Last year, I wrote my feistiest post to date (possibly ever – depends how this one goes!), in which I encouraged readers not to listen to FI blogs, especially when it comes to the question of whether early retirement is sustainable, because too often they don’t tell that full story. I didn’t even really read FI blogs before we got started on our journey, or before I started blogging for that matter, but I’ve still gotten so much from them, and from the community of readers who comment and share thoughts, too.įor those of us interested in living a particular kind of unconventional life made possible by the subtraction of work, FI blogs serve a crucial purpose.Īnd that crucial purpose is why it’s so critical that we always tell the full story. I love the financial independence/early retirement blogging community fiercely, and I’m proud to be a part of what is unquestionably one of the most positive, supportive places on the Internet.
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