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BRIEF · shorter-working-life-fiscal-conditions-memo · May 6, 2026

Fiscal Conditions Memo

Fiscal conditions for reducing required lifetime labor

A companion memo to The Shorter Working Life stack defining the fiscal conditions under which a staged reduction in required lifetime labor could remain plausible. Clarifies the difference between mixed-participation transition and mass early retirement, then maps the core conditions, sources of strain, and guardrails that determine whether the transition remains fiscally serious.

The Approach

Scott Jellen is an independent researcher focused on protocol design, rights modeling, and interoperability across digital and public systems. His flagship work, the Universal Sports Graph (USG), defines a neutral infrastructure layer for representing sports rights through published RFCs and a versioned reference registry. Additional briefs and whitepapers explore how incentive clarity and structural design shape scalable institutions.

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