Ask HN: Why are young tech professionals in US so obsessed with FIRE?

This makes the assumption that "The majority of ...". You have to separate high-volume and loud voices that get press time from what is really happening. These are sensational stories that make click-bait news headlines. However, the majority of people that I've known all my life have pride in the work they do and value an honest day's pay for an honest day's work. The competition for top jobs (e.g. FAANG) is fierce and there's a strong and growing start-up culture where there are plenty of people with hustle mentality. The US is a place of diverse people and ideologies and taking guesses about the average person will probably result in many examples that diverge from unsubstantiated assumptions.

Because of broken economy. The man with rich inheritance will just go on to be the boss.

No human being wants to be an employee for other.

If we want a fair economy, everyone should be fair on the competition.

Also, the way relationship works is also broken.

Anonymous relationship is the best.

The majority of social media content is created by a very small slice of the overall population. I would guess that the tech professionals represent a large portion of that. They probably are a large portion of people interested in FIRE because a tech professionals income in the US is likely to be in the top 10% of all incomes in the country (avg of 173k in 2020).

Because most work is boring. I'm sure I can work to death if the work is interesting or at least 50% interesting, but reality is it's frustrating and bad for my mental health.