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.
Like the standing guarantee itself, it insists on an outcome rather than a mechanism: public ownership stakes, social wealth funds, taxation, automation dividends, public-infrastructure revenue, and civic investment funds are all candidate instruments, and the framework does not sanctify one. Its test is whether capacity actually reaches the ecology — connecting the concentration problem of ownership to the reciprocity the whole system depends on. See the standing transition.