<story><title>Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics</title><url>https://www.therobotreport.com/hyundai-acquires-boston-dynamics-for-921m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>postingpals</author><text>Crunchyroll acquired by Sony, BD acquired by Hyundai, Slack acquired by Salesforce...&lt;p&gt;Our economic system seems to have a natural tendency towards monopoly. This is happening before our eyes and we don&amp;#x27;t even realise it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jandrese</author><text>In market based economies there will always be a general movement of capital to the top, because simply having money allow you to earn more money.  It&amp;#x27;s a positive feedback loop.  That&amp;#x27;s why it is important for an external force, which pretty much has to be a government, to tax the wealth at the top and move it back to the bottom.  Otherwise the system gradually turns into feudalism by its very nature.  A government that stops taxing the richest companies and citizens is failing in its duty to protect the health of the market.</text></comment>
<story><title>Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics</title><url>https://www.therobotreport.com/hyundai-acquires-boston-dynamics-for-921m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>postingpals</author><text>Crunchyroll acquired by Sony, BD acquired by Hyundai, Slack acquired by Salesforce...&lt;p&gt;Our economic system seems to have a natural tendency towards monopoly. This is happening before our eyes and we don&amp;#x27;t even realise it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jl6</author><text>Alternative take: consumer behaviour that demands complex  integrated products incentivizes the formation of large corporate bodies that can marshall the many skills and resources required to make them, with the economies of scale that make them viable.&lt;p&gt;Semi-facetious summary: there’s not a lot of demand for local, organic, artisan all-terrain robot packhorses.</text></comment>