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The Shorter Working Life: Implementation Outline

Institutional Pathways for Reducing Required Lifetime Labor

A companion implementation paper to The Shorter Working Life framework, outlining how required lifetime labor could begin to contract through existing retirement systems. It centers phased and partial retirement as the bridge between full-time work and post-work life, then maps the transition model, implementation sequence, administrative pathways, safeguards, and early signals of institutional change.

Implementation OutlineFuture of WorkRetirementLabor PolicyInstitutional Design
Published: April 25, 2026
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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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