"Fuck-you money" is a meme but is also a truth.
There is an amount of wealth you can achieve when typical restrictions and conventions no longer apply to you.
You don't need to suck up to the gatekeepers. You don't need to do things you don't want to do. In extreme situations you don't even need to follow the law.
Similarly, "fuck you freedom" is kind of downstream from fuck you money, but also can be achieved through cultivating a lack of reliance on other groups. There are no restrictions on where you can travel to, and when, and for how long. You don't need to show up to work on time, or work at all.
If you're sufficiently well structured, you don't even need to care about the state of the economy, or the power grid or the wider world. But I've recently learned about another type of fuck-you liberation.
One which is significantly cheaper, more accessible, more common and maybe even more powerful.
The "fuck you family".
Many fathers I've spoken to have told me about how their priorities were completely changed upon starting a family.
All the previous status games they played seemed petty. The admiration and gamesmanship they used to play in an attempt to impress people in power or those with status seemed juvenile and shallow.
Much of their anxiety around whether different people liked them or thought they were cool evaporated.
The only people they needed to care about impressing were now asleep in their house. To their kids, they were the coolest, richest, strongest, most heroic person on the planet. And that gave them a very powerful type of liberation.
It seems to me that much of what young men get up to are surrogate activities until they finally get a family. This isn't to say that all fathers become placid soyboy hippies, or that having kids neuters your ambition.
But it definitely seems to open up a new realm where they care far less about the flotsam and jetsam that used to occupy their lives.