re: How do you achieve financial freedom at an early age?

If I could go back to my early 20’s before the wife and kids. I’d find ways to earn a lot and invest in rentals. Maybe live in project houses and fix them up and then move on to the next. Rent or flip until I could build up a rental portfolio.

Also may look to invest. Or be a silent investor. Got friends who do that.

Point is that you can risk money and leave cheap when you young and have nobody depending on you. Once you have money, easier to make money.