Capacity circulation addresses an incoherence that AI makes acute: a society can generate genuine abundance while continuing to distribute legitimacy and material standing almost entirely through paid labor. If productive capacity rises sharply but its gains stay concentrated in whoever owns the automated systems, the result is abundance alongside rationed standing — displacement read through a scarcity-era morality. Circulation is the requirement that some of the expanded capacity flow back to the participants who make up the ecology.
How the capacity is captured stays plural: public ownership stakes, social wealth funds, taxation, automation dividends, and public-infrastructure revenue can all serve. What it funds is fixed: the floor credits first, then the commission funds that pay for care and other common work. Its test is whether capacity actually reaches the ecology — connecting the concentration problem of ownership to the reciprocity the whole system depends on. See economic circulation and the standing transition.