I am a man with large dreams. They killed the last guy with one too
This is confusing. Are you suggesting your "dream" of early retirement is somehow comparable to Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream" speech.
For sure. We both want freedom...
Son, you are traveling into territory only occupied by fools. A lot of narcissism is expected around here, but your level may be setting a new target.
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so had it with people comparing themselves to Dr King when their situation isn't remotely similar. He was assassinated more than a decade before you were born, Banker, so maybe this is just ignorance on your part, rather than the combination of self-aggrandizement and totally unjustified self-pity that it sounds like to me.
First of all, that dream you're trying to cloak yourself in was for the benefit of people who were genuinely oppressed, both politically and economically. IMO, anyone who's been able to amass a six-figure portfolio before turning 30 doesn't even begin to fit into that category. I'm both black, and old enough to remember Dr King, and I can't remotely consider myself oppressed. (To a significant extent this is thanks to Dr King and the other Civil Rights activists, and the rest to my parents. I can't take any credit for it—it was handed to me, and all I had to do was not drop it.) I think, in the US at any rate, you have to go back another generation, to people of Dr King's age and perhaps also of his upbringing in the segregated South of those days, before you get to people who really understand, through personal experience, where he was coming from, or who can maybe draw comparisons between him and themselves without looking ridiculous.
Second, and IMO even more important, Dr King's dream was largely for the benefit of others, not for his own personal advantage. Can you say the same of your goal of accumulating a million by age 30? Sure, you are aiming high, and I recognize that it has required and will continue to require both effort and discipline on your part. To that extent, it's a praiseworthy goal. But even if you accomplish it, it will primarily benefit you, your family, and any charities you may support. It isn't going to win you the Nobel Peace Prize, and rightly so.
There really isn't any comparison at all between your (or my) dream of financial independence or retiring early, and Dr King's dream.