Q: Why didn't the young man want to explore space?
A: He thought it was a Taurus-t trap.
But really, when exit velocity requirements are unreasonably high, you might be stuck in a tourist trap.
The ‘new’ thing here is that no one programed the algo to collude here. They ‘decided’ to act as locked step cartel themselves from ‘machine learning’ that it’s the most profitable trade.
This distinction from old tech algo matters in that there is no “criminal intent” w/r/t the institution using these bots. The research main point was that current securities law is not effective in regulating this new generation of tech