Capacity stewardship is the plain-language frame that keeps No Wasted Geometry from being misread as redistribution. A business owner who runs expensive equipment at 20%, or puts a talented person in a role that suppresses their strengths, calls it waste and bad management — not a moral failing to be corrected by giving things away. The same logic, extended to people, is capacity stewardship: a society can be badly organized around the capacities of its own participants, and the task is to reduce that waste.
Why the framing matters
It begins one level earlier than debates about ownership, class, and distribution. It doesn’t assume the fix is equality; the fix might be better education, mobility, healthcare, apprenticeships, looser credentialing, or different institutions — whatever actually brings more real capacity online without causing greater damage elsewhere. That makes it a systems-design question rather than a moral-equality claim. See In Plain Terms.