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I would argue he already does. The entire point of "fuck you" money is that you are no longer beholden to someone else - it is not so much defined by the overall amount, but by the freedom it can buy you. He gets to work on what he loves doing every day doing it exactly the way he wants.

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My definition of FU money is that you have enough money to be secure no matter what.

I think he would still rely on the month to month or year to year income rather than being completely secure.

Nobody is completely secure.

I’m currently trying to figure out if I wanted to work 20 hours a month post-retirement, what sort of work that would look like.

There are a handful of nature and nurture reasons that tell me that full retirement would likely be very bad for my health. And of course partial retirement I could start a little sooner.

The joy of FU money https://thedeepdish.org/fuck-you-money/

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