The right not to maximize is the safeguard that keeps commensurate participation from becoming the domination it exists to prevent. Someone who could become an extraordinary physicist but prefers gardening, raising children, reading, and occasional community work is not wasting geometry — and the model may never tell them so. No Wasted Geometry opposes the unnecessary suppression of capacity, not the voluntary non-maximization of it.
Expected, not compelled
The distinction it draws should be treated as constitutional: participation may be expected; optimization may not be compelled. The field can reasonably ask a capable participant to take part in shared maintenance; it cannot reasonably demand the maximum extraction of what they are capable of — because a person’s geometry is not owned by the ecology. This is what separates a living reciprocal system from a highly sophisticated conscription that reads people’s abilities and then bills them for the difference. See Consequential Participation.