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Please go on about the regulations that libertarians love around allocation of stuff.


Sure, it's called "property" and "contracts".


But these aren’t about the government allocating stuff.


Absolutely they are.


allocate: distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose


Yep, when the government makes a plan like "5 hotdogs per person per week" that's allocation, and when the government makes a plan like "each 100x100 meter plot to the highest bidder" that's allocation, and when the government makes a plan like "special rights to the creator or their nominee until 70 years after they are dead" that's allocation too.




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