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    Supports→An institution whose outputs are structurally biased toward powerful private actors cannot satisfy the beneficence conditions invoked in P1–P4, defeating the consequentialist legitimation strategy from within.

    Institutions demonstrably allocate resources and opportunities disproportionately to wealthy actors through documented structural mechanisms like lobbying access and regulatory capture.

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    Allocate(as used in decision-making and economics)
    To distribute or assign resources (money, time, materials, etc.) among different uses or purposes.
    Disproportionately(as used in justice and ethics)
    Out of balance or not matching in size or degree; much larger or smaller than what would be fair or reasonable.
    Institutions(the main subject being discussed)
    Formal or informal systems of rules and organizations (like governments, markets, or legal systems) that structure how people interact and make decisions.
    Lobbying(as used in political philosophy)
    When people or groups try to influence government decisions by meeting with officials and persuading them to support certain policies that benefit them.
    Regulatory capture

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    When the industries or companies that are supposed to be regulated by a government agency end up controlling that agency instead, so rules get written to benefit them rather than protect the public.
    Structural mechanisms(as used in social and political philosophy)
    The built-in systems and processes within institutions that create patterns of inequality, often invisibly embedded in how things are organized.

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