Stan Chen: Five Deficiencies and Six Losses—Is This How We Love Taiwan?

Franz founder Stan Chen cites the Federation of Taiwan Industries' white paper to poignantly point out Taiwan's crisis of 'Five Deficiencies and Six Losses.' Five deficiencies: water shortage, power shortage, labor shortage, land shortage, talent shortage. Six losses: government incompetence, social disorder, legislative dysfunction, economic imbalance, generational loss, and loss of national vision. Chen attributes the primary cause of this crisis to twenty years of biased educational reform and ethnic polarization, which have eroded Taiwan society's traditional Confucian moral values. The author questions whether many people, claiming to 'love Taiwan,' are actually acting immorally and unethically. He calls for Taiwan to pursue not only technological and economic development but also a 4.0 transformation in moral education and cultural thinking to avoid heading toward universal poverty and decline.