Scott Jellen
Independent Researcher · Protocol Designer
I study systems whose inherited rules no longer fit present conditions, then develop protocols, mechanisms, and institutional models for how those systems might operate differently. Through Jellen Protocol Lab, I publish research across protocol infrastructure, labor and economic systems, public mechanisms, media platforms, institutional redesign, and public-memory systems.
The Universal Sports Graph (USG) is the Lab's flagship protocol program, translating fragmented sports rights, access, and entitlement into interoperable infrastructure.
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A research paper examining the structural vulnerability of Massachusetts' high-cost, knowledge-intensive economy as artificial intelligence changes the relationship between economic output and human labor. Using occupational wage data, illustrative wage-compression scenarios, demographic and fiscal analysis, and the historical transformation of the Route 128 technology corridor, the paper explores how declining household earning capacity could interact with persistent living costs and institutional obligations. It introduces carrying wage capacity, household income headroom, fiscal headroom, and the shrinking-denominator mechanism to explain how economic deterioration could occur without an immediate collapse in employment or output. The paper argues that long-term resilience requires greater physical anchoring of economic activity and lower recurring household costs.
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