<div dir="ltr">Henrik, <br>Where can I find the Extropian Principles? <br>Any link?<br>Giovanni </div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 6, 2026 at 11:45 AM Henrik Ohrstrom via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">The Extropian Principles 2.5 somewhat mumbles but mostly condemns any attempt to make money by hindering other capitalist actors.<div>Such behavior is basically centrally planned, authoritarian systems that extropians want to move beyond. </div><div>Legitimate profit arises through production, innovation, and voluntary transactions in a free, decentralized spontaneous order — never through coercion or exclusion. </div><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:transparent">"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.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:transparent">Now, how are Mylans manipulation of government functions to exclude all other market actors free market?</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:transparent">they are actively using government repression to make money. That is communism no?</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:transparent">/henrik</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Den fre 6 nov. 2026 kl 18:47 skrev <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border-width:1pt medium medium;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Henrik Ohrstrom <<a href="mailto:henrik.ohrstrom@gmail.com" target="_blank">henrik.ohrstrom@gmail.com</a>> <br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Why is "cost of living" such a big problem?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><blockquote style="border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><p class="MsoNormal">>>…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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">You are dodging, what's the extropian view of economic predation?<u></u><u></u></p></div></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal">/Henrik<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Henrik you are dodging. If successful research is not absurdly rewarded, what keeps investors coming? Nothing. They go to other industries.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>
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