FreedomFIRE: A New Flavour of Financial Independence
You can hit the FIRE number and wake up still renting. A landlord and a bank can take your front door before lunch. The compass that exposes which kind of free you actually are.
The FreedomFIRE compass - nine class profiles
| Wealth --> | Low wealth | Mid wealth | High wealth |
|---|---|---|---|
| High freedom | Bohemian | Kulak | Aristocrat |
| Mid freedom | Proletariat | Petit Bourgeois | Rentier |
| Low freedom | Lumpenproletariat | Wage Slave | Comprador |
Two axes, nine cells. A 1D FIRE score collapses Comprador and Bohemian into the middle.
Key takeaways
FreedomFIRE measures freedom as a structural position, not just a money number.
Your result is a coordinate on a 2D compass: wealth on one axis, freedom on the other.
Nine class profiles tile the compass, including the two off-diagonal positions a 1D score collapses: Comprador (high wealth, low freedom) and Bohemian (low wealth, high freedom).
A reader with £2 million invested and a job they cannot quit is a Comprador, not an Aristocrat. A reader with £20,000 and an owned roof is a Bohemian, not a Wage Slave.