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==Personal life==
FM-2030 was a lifelong vegetarian and said he would not eat anything that had a mother. He famously refused to answer any questions about his nationality, age and upbringing, claiming that such questions were irrelevant and that he was a "global person".<ref name="cryonics 2000">{{cite news |url=http://www.alcor.org/cryonics/cryonics2000-4.pdf |title=A Tribute to FM-2030 |access-date=2009-08-25 |last=Chamberlain |first=Fred |date=Winter 2000 |publisher=Alcor Life Extension Foundation |archive-date=November 19, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101119134918/http://alcor.org/cryonics/cryonics2000-4.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> FM-2030 once said, "I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future."<ref>{{cite web|author=Greenwich Village Gazette (A New1.com Publication) |url=http://www.nycny.com/columns/nichols/nichols09-15-00.html |title=Greenwich Village Gazette: Columns: Gay Today: Jack Nichols |publisher=Nycny.com |access-date=2011-03-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714215926/http://www.nycny.com/columns/nichols/nichols09-15-00.html |archive-date=2011-07-14 }}</ref> As he spent much of his childhood in India, he spoke English with a slight Indian accent.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.alcor.org/docs/alcor-patient-profile-FM-2030.pdf|title=A Tribute to FM-2030|date=Fall 2000|author=Fred Chamberlain|website=alcor.org|access-date=9 June 2023|archive-date=June 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220606055946/https://www.alcor.org/docs/alcor-patient-profile-FM-2030.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> He taught at [[The New School]], [[University of California, Los Angeles]], and [[Florida International University]].<ref name="nytimes obituary"/> He worked as a corporate consultant for [[Lockheed Corporation|Lockheed]] and [[J. C. Penney]].<ref name="nytimes obituary"/> He was an atheist.<ref>Esfandiary, F. M. Up-Wingers: A Futurist Manifesto. p. 185.</ref>
FM-2030 was, in his own words, a follower of "up-wing" politics (i.e. neither right-wing nor left-wing but something else), by which he meant that he endorsed universal progress.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://aeon.co/essays/left-and-right-are-over-the-future-is-up-and-down| title = Ninety-degree revolution: Right and Left are fading away. The real question in politics will be: do you look to the earth or aspire to the skies?| access-date = December 24, 2018| archive-date = December 24, 2018| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181224220131/https://aeon.co/essays/left-and-right-are-over-the-future-is-up-and-down| url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.foresightguide.com/empowerment-politics-left-right-and-up-wing| title = Empowerment Politics: Left Wing, Right Wing, and Up Wing| access-date = December 24, 2018| archive-date = December 24, 2018| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181224221333/http://www.foresightguide.com/empowerment-politics-left-right-and-up-wing| url-status = live}}</ref> He was in a non-exclusive "friendship" (his preferred term for relationship) with Flora Schnall, a lawyer and fellow Harvard Law Class of 1959 graduate, from the 1960s until his death. FM-2030 and Schnall attended the same class as [[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lithwick |first1=Dahlia |title=The Class of RBG |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/the-women-of-harvard-law-rbg-1959.html |access-date=1 January 2021 |work=Slate |agency=Slate Group |publisher=Graham Holding Company |date=21 July 2020 |archive-date=July 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721180731/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/the-women-of-harvard-law-rbg-1959.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He resided in [[Westwood, Los Angeles]], as well as [[Miami]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-11-vw-191-story.html | title=Are You Ready? : The Future is Here, and This Author with a Strange Name Has a Test for Those Who Wonder if They'll Fit in | website=[[Los Angeles Times]] | date=11 January 1989 | access-date=November 2, 2022 | archive-date=November 2, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102221101/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-11-vw-191-story.html | url-status=live }}</ref>