Wealth Awakening
Retired Early with FIRE? Lost Everything: 5 Fatal Flaws in the 4% Rule
Quit at 35 chasing FIRE, only to get crushed by inflation and long-term care costs? This piece dismantles the 4% rule's outdated assumptions, the irreversible damage of sequence-of-returns risk, the cruel truth of renting in old age, the real bill when long-term care swallows a NT$10M nest egg, and the hidden killers of psychological emptiness and marriage friction—then hands you two wealthy exit paths: the Coast strategy and Barista FIRE.