The Welfare State: Will It Stay or Will It Go?

In our final chapter, we summarize the results of our study, beginning with the two main foci in the interviewee responses we collected: reflections on (1) the material basis for financing the future welfare state, and (2) the new trends—e-health, robotization, and basic income—that may influence the future of the welfare state. We also include opinions of various writers and commentators on how the COVID-19 pandemic may stimulate and influence future welfare state developments, particularly basic income.