benevolent

Despite all the costs entailed in the transition, industrial technology and the market system accomplished what no benevolent king’s redistribution, no loving bishop’s charity, no mercantilist’s protectionism and no powerful guild ever did.

As author Stephanie Land points out, weaponized government assistance is the opposite of benevolent.

Six seasons of TV and three feature films depict servitude as a benevolent state, sometimes verging on jolly.

When Walmart decided to raise pay for the hourly workers in its stores and warehouses, who now number 1.5 million, it wasn’t trying to be benevolent.

"But these are not benevolent guardians of personal memory."