Edited sentence: A thriving Reddit community also caters explicitly to FIRE in Australia, with over 11,000 subscribers in December 2018.As the FIRE movement became better known in 2018, it also gained notoriety.Concerns and complaints also include FIREs impact on the economy if people stop spending and working.Further concerns have been raised that the FIRE movement is elitist, and only available to a very small portion of society.However, as with Suze Orman, most of the hatred towards FIRE is derived from a lack of understanding.Money Mustache, Early Retirement Extreme and (to a lesser extent) Get Rich Slowly.One of the oldest blogs in Australia is Aussie Firebug, however in recent years this space has exploded to include sites like Money Flamingo, FIRE by Thirty-Five, Life Long Shuffle and.Regardless of whether it is possible or not, FIRE adherents argue that everyone can benefit from the message they are sending, that spending less and living life on your own terms increases happiness.Since then her comments have been referenced by nearly every anti-FIRE publication online.The FIREUK subreddit has over 9,300 subscribers in December 2018.The biggest backlash came from Suze Orman (who later retracted her comments) when she appeared on the Afford Anything podcast to tell the world she hated FIRE.The online community includes sites like The Firestarter, Little Miss Fire, and Simple Living in Suffolk.The primary misconception of FIRE is that it's adherents are living a paupers life now, with the hopes of retiring on a large cash cushion to do nothing but watch day-time TV, while being stuck as paupers.There is a belief that FIRE adherents restrict their lifestyle to a point that any unexpected crises, no matter how small, would topple their house of cards.While the FIRE community does not attempt to argue that it would be easy for everyone to achieve Financial Independence, arguments go both way as to whether every person has the potential to be Financially Independent regardless of their background, or whether the cards are stacked against people.While the FIRE movement moved into the public eye in 2018, it had been quietly building online for almost a decade with influencers like Mr.While the biggest names in the FIRE movement are based in America, it has spread across the world.While the movement has been criticised for being driven by white, middle aged men in tech jobs, a multitude of women-run sites and blogs are making headway including Afford Anything, Fiery Millennials, the Frugalwoods, and Our Next Life