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Re:Spain is moving to permanently establish universal basic ... by mszcz on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @10:13AM (#22803355)
I'm from Poland and I'm not concerned at all. I _know_ that the goverment will not be able to provide my retirement.

I think that it's better to think about goverment-provided retirement as something that _might_ happend, and would be nice, but not as something that you can relay on in your golden years. Unfortunately, that will leave some underpriviledged people screwed. I also understand that I'm very lucky, with my skillset and bringing up, to be able to plan for it myself.

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Re:Spain is moving to permanently establish universal basic ... by mercer on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @10:21AM (#22803438)
I'm from The Netherlands, and while I'd expect people here to expect or hope for more, millennials and under are generally pessimistic too.

As a self-employed programmer with a decent breadth of experience and as an autodidact with low needs, I consider myself very lucky too, but I worry for a lot of my friends.

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