They are allocated in levels though, so you can’t just get an individual unused address if the top level has been allocated to IBM or Cisco or the DoD. It’s not democratic.

There isn’t 5 addresses per person in the US. They use NAT like everyone else. I think you know this though.

I remember hearing that it meant every device could have a unique IP. But we still have NAT…

I’ve still never used ipv6. It just never offered anything I needed.