Link: Business Insider
Date: 2021-09-11

Why

Google wants to be at the forefront of technology and own it before it can become a competitor.

How

Google has pretty much limitless cash that is hoarded from society. The funding to the average person it is alot, to the rich it is pennies.

Opinion

Now is a great time to be an entrepreneur. The big companies are only getting bigger and taking more profit around the world.
The money is not coming back into society into many ways, but one way is by having an idea, make progress with it and hope these big companies with large sums of cash throw funding at you.
One of the ways left to take money from the rich corporations is through this.