Extraction is when regulation flows one-way
and calling it out causes an incident.

I wrote a post-mortem about that pattern.
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https://systemic.engineering/extraction/

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Regulation-as-a-Service: When Systems Become Extractive

Asymmetric regulation isn't a bug—it's a feature in Parent-child, Therapist-client, Teacher-student relationships. Extraction is when the SLA was never negotiated, the load-bearer doesn't know they're on-call 24/7, and stating a need triggers an incident.

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