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For decades, standard capital markets assumptions have relied on a predictable, cyclical conveyor belt of capital: workers save, institutions invest, markets rise. But we might be staring down a massive, structural wrench in the gears. Between the Great Retirement of the Boomer generation and the cultural explosion of Coast FIRE—where millions of younger investors stop contributing to retirement entirely to coast on part-time work—we are looking at an unprecedented slowdown in fresh capital flows. Join us as we play out a "slightly out there" macroeconomic thought experiment: is the collective pursuit of financial independence actually toxic to the systemic liquidity that makes independence possible?

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