A companion brief to The Shorter Working Life stack clarifying how the project differs from universal basic income. It explains that while both frameworks respond to labor disruption, automation, and productivity change, The Shorter Working Life begins by reducing the amount of labor that remains structurally required across a lifetime rather than by starting with income transfer.
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BRIEF · shorter-working-life-ubi-contrast-brief · May 22, 2026
UBI Contrast Brief
Why this framework begins with time, not income