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Repair Debt Interest Rate

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Quick takeaways

The rate at which unrepaired harm compounds through financial penalties, health risk, displacement risk, or reputational spread.

Definition

The rate at which unrepaired harm compounds through financial penalties, health risk, displacement risk, or reputational spread. This metric converts moral debt into explicit time-bound obligations.

Higher interest rates prioritize faster interventions and stronger restitution commitments.

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Scope
G. Measures & indicators. Metrics that track moral performance across systems.
Genealogy
Ethotechnics uses Repair Debt Interest Rate to extend the g. measures & indicators vocabulary and connect governance, design, and policy teams.

Adjacent terms

Moral Debt Time-to-Restore (TTR) Pathways to Restitution

Related concepts

Also tagged: Temporal

Fail-Safe Mode Fail-Open Mode Fail-Silent Mode Crumple Zone / Human-as-Crumple-Zone Harm Visibility Dead Zones / Moral Dead Zones

Also tagged: Structural

Ethotechnics Moral Behavior (of Systems) Ethical Load Path Ethotechnic Audit Conviviality Ethotechnic Maturity

Example corpus

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v1.1.0

Last updated

Jan 9, 2026

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Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. (2026). Repair Debt Interest Rate. Ethotechnics glossary. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/repair-debt-interest-rate

MLA

Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. "Repair Debt Interest Rate." Ethotechnics glossary, 2026, https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/repair-debt-interest-rate.

Chicago

Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. "Repair Debt Interest Rate." Ethotechnics glossary. Jan 9, 2026. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/repair-debt-interest-rate.

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@misc{glossary_repair-debt-interest-rate,
  title={Repair Debt Interest Rate},
  author={Ethotechnics Institute Research Team},
  year={2026},
  howpublished={Ethotechnics glossary},
  url={https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/repair-debt-interest-rate},
  version={v1.1.0}
}

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Contact: research@ethotechnics.org

Publication details

  • Published: Dec 3, 2025
  • Last updated: Jan 9, 2026
  • Version: v1.1.0
  • DOI: Pending Zenodo deposit

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Changelog

  • v1.1.0 · 2026-01-09 — Expanded scholarly metadata, operational tests, and provenance notes.
  • v1.0.0 · 2025-12-03 — Initial glossary release with stable permalinks.