[ExI] Why is "cost of living" such a big problem?

[Henrik Ohrstrom]

The Extropian Principles 2.5 somewhat mumbles but mostly condemns any
attempt to make money by hindering other capitalist actors.
Such behavior is basically centrally planned, authoritarian systems that
extropians want to move beyond.
Legitimate profit arises through production, innovation, and voluntary
transactions in a free, decentralized spontaneous order — never through
coercion or exclusion.
"The principle of spontaneous order is embodied in the free market system
-- a system that does not yet exist in a pure form. We are evolving away
from tribalism, feudalism, authoritarianism, and democracy towards a
polycentric system of distributed power shared among autonomous agents,
their plans coordinated by the economic network. The free market allows
complex institutions to develop, encourages innovation, rewards individual
initiative, cultivates personal responsibility, fosters diversity, and
decentralizes power. Market economies spur the technological and social
progress essential to the Extropian philosophy. We have no use for the
technocratic idea of central control by self-proclaimed experts. No group
of experts can understand and control the endless complexity of an economy
and society. Expert knowledge is best harnessed and transmitted through the
superbly efficient mediation of the free market's price signals -- signals
that embody more information than any person or organization could ever
gather.

Now, how are Mylans manipulation of government functions to exclude all
other market actors free market?
they are actively using government repression to make money. That is
communism no?

/henrik

Den fre 6 nov. 2026 kl 18:47 skrev <spike at rainier66.com>:

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> >>…Of course.  No one is restricted from investing in medical research.
> Medical researchers who find the answer first and best must be allowed to
> profit from that successful research to whatever the market will bear.  I
> don’t see any other way.  Do you?  Do share please.
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> You are dodging,  what's the extropian view of economic predation?
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> Henrik you are dodging.  If successful research is not absurdly rewarded,
> what keeps investors coming?  Nothing.  They go to other industries.
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