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https://www.mcloughlin.world/glossaries/ssa-lexicon/term/benevolent-downgrade/
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Benevolent Downgrade
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Benevolent Downgrade
Scope note: Support That Lowers Capacity
When a person accepts help, but that help limits their options, reduces their independence, or removes authorship. The system frames it as benevolent while decreasing quality of life.
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Published in SSA Ontology v0.1.0. Content licensed CC BY 4.0.
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This concept was extracted from the original SSA Lexicon and republished as a stable ontology resource. Original source page(s): https://www.mcloughlin.world/ssa-lexicon/glossary-of-system-led-distortion/