if i have 1mil ARR, i can hire some devs to remake my product from scratch. and use the Vibecoded Example as a design mockup.

If i manage to vibecode something alone that takes off, even without technical expertise, then you validated the AI usecase...

Before Claude i had to make a paper prototype or a figma, now i can make Slop that looks and somehow functions the way i want. i can make preliminary tests, and even get to some proof of concept. in some cases even 1million $ annual revenue...

That's because in the UK people just don't walk, except in certain places. You wouldn't get this crane incident happening in London, for example. But in other places people just won't walk there. One way to reduce deaths is just get everyone into cars.

I feel like I don't need to read articles with inflammatory headlines.

Take a million, go live literally anywhere that isn't Silicon Valley, remote work for a company that interests you, or your own project.

There's very few currencies in the world in which 1M isn't enough to retire. USD isn't one of them.

> FYI the real solution is bus lanes so busses don't get stuck in traffic

The real solution is to stop using transit to move human misery from one place to another. Get everyone an individual car (a self-driving at this point EV, of course) and redesign cities to be human-oriented, not transit-focused.

There is NO mathematical way to make buses robust. They will always be some combination of too slow, too expensive, or too inconvenient for most people.

Buses have low average speed because they need to stop often. And you can't make bus stops more infrequent, because people won't be able to walk from their homes fast enough. And doing complicated systems with local/express buses just wastes time during transit.

Buses can't be frequent, because the average daily load is already just around 15 people per bus. And this is with longer off-peak intervals.

Etc.

If by "screwed" you mean having to pay a modest fee to access one of the most valuable pieces of land on the entire planet, sure.

A company runs an online game. The actual online infrastructure is a bunch of different services that are held together with string. They have licenced some propriatry database. The studio runs out of money and lays off all the staff.

What happens?