Yes, Chewy, watch your language! God help us if this terminology becomes popular with the local population…oh, wait.
Taiwan will be fine… By the time things really slow down and we need to cope with an aging population, etc, we (Taiwan) will be an integral part of China. The government (in Beijing) will then solve our problems by moving a few million mainlanders to Taiwan (by offering incentives like they did in XinXiang and Tibet) to repopulate and restart the economy. 
They could export older people and import younger ones . OH wait they did that with me already.
So, what’s your take on the future then? Speaking as a local, of course, but one with a somewhat different education and hopefully a little less pro-China brainwashing.
[quote=“Feiren”]I’ve been hearing the same kinds of complaints over the past 20 years. I hear this kind of badmouthing Taiwan was far worse in the 1970s and 1980s.
Several of the earlier posters have a valid complaint about poor working condition though. I think that there is a whole generation of people in Taiwan who have been educated to work in a knowledge and service economy. Unfortunately, that economy has never really emeregd in Taiwan, which continues to be dominated by manufacturing and the cost-down, military-style of management that prevails there and often seeps over into other sectors. That in large part has been caused by the distorting effects of the opening to China. An older generation of taiwanese businesspeople see no reason to change because they can continue to make money the old fashioned way in China.
MM, I don’t thing job prospects in TV for telegenic ABCs dried up because of CSB. As recently as a decade ago, people though owning a TV station was a license to print money as it had been during the monoploy era. After 50 channels came on the air, no one has been able to figure out how to make money off those telegenic ABCs (with a few exceptions). The same is true of English-language programming. Hence the limited job prospects in an industry where most are losing their shirts.[/quote]
What’s CSB?
What if China has the same problem of an ageing population?
Did you know that Shanghai already has an ageing population?
Surely China does have an ageing population. I know the One Child Policy hasn’t been completely effective, but it wouldn’t have to be to age the population.
So, what’s your take on the future then? Speaking as a local, of course, but one with a somewhat different education and hopefully a little less pro-China brainwashing.[/quote]
Such language, I’m afraid, might deeply scar some of the more, er, sensitive members here.
What if China has the same problem of an ageing population?
Did you know that Shanghai already has an ageing population?[/quote]
In the interest of The Mother Land, I am pretty sure that they could find a few million young people in “less important” provinces to fuel the economy of the “prodigal son”.
[quote=“Poagao”]
Such language, I’m afraid, might deeply scar some of the more, er, sensitive members here.[/quote]
Ouch! More jelly, Vicar?
We’ll they’d best hurry - according to the Chinese gov. the last city in china will begin to age in 25yrs. It took the US 100 years to do that. Several hundred million people will need retirements in that period of time.
As for Taiwan. I don’t worry too much. It will muddle through much as it always has.