★According
to the 2024 World Happiness Report (WHR) published
by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford.
The survey panel ranked Taiwan
31st on the list, with Japan ranking 51th,
S. Korea 52nd.(Mar. 2024)
◎
★Brookings, 2024-9-25:
Taiwan authorities have attempted
without success to incentivize population growth through subsidies. Looking
ahead, greater policy efforts will likely be needed to address the root causes
of declining fertility, including by offering greater access to child and elder
care, affordable housing, and reductions in cost-of-living stresses on younger
generations.
◎
★
聯合報 (United Daily, 2024-11-2): Most people's wages remain
at the same level,
the prices of commodities ·are
getting higher and higher, and housing prices are so high that many
people cannot reach it. The middle class is crumbling!
The average
wealth of the richest 20% of families is NT$51,330,000; the average wealth of
the poorest 20% of families is only NT$770,000. The gap between the two is
67 times.udn.com/news/story/7338/8332529?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2
★
★
The Conversation (2023-12-21): Taiwan's
falling birth rate has become a national security issue
/ For three years now, deaths have exceeded births in Taiwan. Only immigration is
preventing a real decline in population. (1)
Young women in Taiwantend
to explain their preference for pets over babies in terms of financial
pressures, particularly the cost of housing. marriage
avoidance has become a marked phenomenon.
(2) the problem is grounded in the Confucian cultural bedrock
of the region. Family and society are rigidly patriarchal. Workplace organisation and wider societal structures are unfavourable to women.
(3) Taiwanese live with an undercurrent of concern
about the future of their country. If so,... a lack of security in geopolitical terms is informing decisions about
whether or not to marry and have childrentheconversation.com/why-taiwans-falling-birth-rate-has-become-a-national-security-issue-219968
◎
★
United Daily (聯合報, 2024-9-18):
The elderly encounter
discrimination everywhere in their daily life, and often face
unequal treatment in Taiwan.
Is it difficult for Taiwan's government not taking lead to do
this ?
★
SCMP (2024-1-6):Government statistics show the minimum living
cost in Taipei is around NT$24,000 (US$780) per month- excluding rent, which can
easily reach at least NT$15,000 (US$480) for a small one-person flat, or
NT$30,000 (US$960) for a two-room flat.
UDN (聯合報), 2023-12-14: The
Median number of monthly salary in Taiwan
is about NT$43,000.
◎
★
Modern Diplomacy
(2024-1-15): Incomes
remain low. In fact, Taiwan has one of the most
inadequate incomes among advanced nations, with the minimum wage reportedly
fulfilling just 49.5% of the basic needs. The Taiwanese economy seems to
be losing its charisma as the GDP consistently
declined from 6.6% in 2021 to 2.6% in 2022 and 1.4% in 2023.
moderndiplomacy.eu/2024/01/15/lai-ching-te-and-the-challenges-ahead-for-taiwan/
CHERRY HITKARI
pic. :
pic. : The web-site group
was ranked No.1
"Taiwanese Happiness" on
Yandex of Russia,
2024-10-7,
2024-5-15,
2024-1-21,
2024-1-6,
2023-12-3,
2023-9-3,
2023-5-20,
2023-5-9,
2023-2-11,
2022-9-22,
2022-7-52024-1-6, 2023-12-3, 2023-9-3, 2023-5-20, 2023-5-9, 2023-2-11, 2022-9-22, 2022-7-5; No.2
"Taiwanese Happiness" on
Yandex of Russia,
2024-7-25; pic.: No.1 "台灣人幸福"(
"Taiwanese Happiness")
on Bing,
2024-10-7,
2024-1-21,
2024-1-6,
2023-12-3,
2023-5-9,
2023-2-11 (Chinese version)
◎
pic. : The web-site group
was ranked No.1
"Taiwanese Happiness" on
Bing, 2023-9-3;
No.2
"Taiwanese Happiness" on
Bing, 2024-10-7
pic. : The web-site group was ranked No.1 "Taiwanese Happiness"
(Chinese version) on
Microsoft Bing, 2024-10-7;
No.1 "Taiwanese Happiness"
on
Microsoft Bing,2023-9-1, 2023-5-21, 2023-2-11, 2022-9-22, 2022-3-27, 2021-12-10, 2021-6-24, 1-9-2021; No.2 at 2022-3-8, 2021-11-24
★United Daily (聯合報), 2023-7-25: The
US predicts Taiwan to have world's (227 countries) lowest birth rate in 2023.
...udn.com/news/story/7338/7322470?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub7338_pulldownmenu_v2
◎
★United Daily (聯合報),
2024-7-24:Currently, the number of suicides and
self-mutilations among Taiwanese teenagers has increased ten times since 1996.
The number of Taiwanese who do not get married, don't want children... ranks
world No.1 . Young people even do not choose to fall in love anymore.
Two million people suffer from depression, and a quarter of the population have
difficulty in sleeping at night. udn.com/news/story/7340/8114902?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2楊志良
◎
★United Daily
(2024-5-15): In the
past 8 years, Taiwanese real recurring salary/revenue grew
negatively year after year. According to Gov. (主計總處)
statistics (「家庭財富分配統計」二○二一年)
, the average number of top 20
Taiwanese family-wealth is 66.9 times
as high as that of the bottom 20%.
The
amount of Taiwanese got scammed/fraud is up to NT8.878 billion,
which hits new high. udn.com/news/story/124029/7964444?from=redpush
◎
★United Daily (聯合報), 2023-10-31: Half
of young people are poor so that they don't need to file taxes. The gap
between the rich and the poor hit 10 years high.
(半數年輕人窮到免繳稅，去年貧富差距創十年新高)
udn.com/news/story/7338/7540439?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2
China Times
(中國時報)
,
2023-12-2: The declining birthrate has
plunged into a vicious cycle
★FTV News (民視新聞), 2023-12-4: Taiwan's
fertiity rate (birth rate 1.09) will rank world last in 2023。Housing
price and
(commodity) prices
rising a lot is the main cause.tw.news.yahoo.com/2023台灣生育率全球最後1名-民眾-房價高不敢生-043103360.html★
★
Taiwan VS. world least affordable housing
market
The Least Affordable Housing Market, 2023-9-29
visualcapitalist.com/mapping-housing-market-affordability/
RANK
Metro. Market
Median Multiple (median house price / median household
income)
1
Hong Kong, China
(most expensive)
18
Taipei, Taiwan (2023 Q2
)
15.5
2
Sydney, NSW, Australia
13.3
New Taipei , Taiwan (2023 Q2)
12.9
3
Vancouver, BC, Canada
12.0
4
Honolulu
11.8
5
San Jose
11.5
★United Daily (聯合報), 2023-12-17: According
to government's statistics, 80% of female aged 25~29 are
bachelorette, 45％ aged
30~34 are unmarried. It is usually because the male (or they) can't afford
buying a house. Taiwan's divorce rate rose
steadily, 34.75% couples divorced 5 years after being
married. The fertility of both male and female drop sharply.
According to study by Taipei medical university (台北醫學院)，Taiwanese
sperm reduce 1% for every 10 years，The fertility of
Taiwanese female after age 33 fall sharply, but the
average marriage-age of the female is 30.2. Taiwan ranks world No.1
or 2 in terms of
infertility
- 1/7. udn.com/news/story/7340/7646034?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2楊志良
★China Times (中國時報)
,
2023-12-2: According to government ,
Taiwanese need NT$ 24,574 monthly in average to keep body and soul together；by
contrast, the average monthly labor pension is only bit more than NT$
18,000。This is a serious issue of Taiwan's labor
system.
★
★United Daily (聯合報), 2023-7-10: Taiwan's suicide rate ranks
No.3 compared with OECD countries in 2022 (Taiwan is not a member of OECD)
; Taiwan's
Annual working hours (1910 hrs.) ranks
world No.4 udn.com/news/story/121823/7289250?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub121823_pulldownmenu_v2
★
Gallup's
accompanying article, “Global
Study Reveals Most Workers Enjoy What They Do”,
Taiwan
ranks No. 114 out of 122countries. moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/11/10/122-countries-ranked-on-workplace-happiness/
2022-11-10
★
China Times
,
2023-12-3: The hidden debt is as
high as NT$ 11 trillion, and is increasing at an average
of more than NT$ 400 billions per year. Because of
Tsai Ing-wen government's inactive, it is estimated that
the Labor Insurance Fund will go bankrupt in 2028, and
the premiums paid by workers may never be recovered
chinatimes.com/opinion/20231202003281-262101?chdtv
★United Daily (聯合報), 2023-12-3: The number of people
diagnosed with depression in Taiwan has increased to
1.25 million, and one-fifth of the population cannot
sleep at night unless taking sleeping pills. The number
of Taiwanese suicide and self-harm aged 15 ~ 24 has
increased from 1,000 in 2015 to 10,000 in recent years.
When people are depressed, domestic violence has reached
to 120,000 cases, child abuse has reached more than 40
cases every day, elder abuse has exceeded 10,000 cases
...udn.com/news/story/7340/7614549?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2楊志良former the Minister of the
Department of Health
★
Yahoo, CTI, 2023-2-11:
law maker："joblessness
and inflation are two major miseries".
tw.news.yahoo.com/台灣經濟真相-王鴻薇揭近2年-痛苦指數-蔡政府對人民視而不見-081733883.html#:~:text=王鴻薇指出：「失業和通貨,突破7%25大關。」
Taiwanese「misery
index」
Dec.
2022
Nov.
2022
Oct.
2022
Sept.
2022
Aug.
2022
July
2022
6.23
5.96
6.38
6.42
6.47
7.13
★
《China Daily
》
,
2023-5-26: Taiwan people unhappy with DPP, polls show/
Taiwan's residents are disillusioned with
Tsai Ing-wen's
performance and the DPP administration's reluctance to address important issues
such as the income gap, affordable housing and unemployment. 73.9 percent of
respondents are unhappy with the administration's
approach toward narrowing the income gap.......The
high cost of living, coupled with low wages and long
working hours, has caused significant hardships。Another
poll conducted by the Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation,
more than 50 percent of respondents do not want the DPP to remain in
power.The DPP has not just wasted Taiwan people's
hard-earned money but has also tried to push the region
to the brink of war.
chinadaily.com.cn/a/202305/26/WS646fc82ea310b6054fad5234.html
★
《
National Interest》 , 2022-7-9:
Taiwan faces many internal problems.
First, low wages and high
housing costs are affecting the marriage rate and leading to decreases in
fertility.
nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-china-cant-afford-attack-taiwan-203504
★
《
VOAnews》 ,
2022-4-1:
survey: More than 20% of
Taiwanese under the age of 40 say they lack savings and
65% report they are in debt,
only one-third of respondents said their income exceeds
their expenses,... Some 41.8%
of respondents said their debt was high enough that they
felt economic pressure.Taiwan's rising
housing costs have also made it difficult for young
people...
Today, even small housing units in Taipei can command
prices exceeding $1 million,...housing
prices across six cities including Taipei rose more than
30% between 2019 and 2021.Much of the inflated prices in
housing is fueled by the long running problem of
property speculation in Taiwan and very little social
housing.
voanews.com/a/survey-shows-young-taiwanese-lack-savings-are-highly-indebted-/6510937.html
★《
UnitedDaily
經濟日報》,
2023-5-20:
The price index of houses in Q4, 2022 reaches 127.5,
which increases 28% since Tsai Ing-wen took office in 2016。The
prices of pre-sale houses increase even much more ( 87%
)。 The young people cannot afford buying a
house, therefore more and more choose not to get married and not to have baby.
udn.com/news/story/7338/7177628?
《
UnitedDaily
》,
2023-5-20: The public worry Taiwan's economic future, the young people are at a
loss about the price of houses and military draft.
udn.com/news/story/7338/7177665?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2
★
《SCMP》,
2022-11-1:
Taiwan’s fertility rate set to become
world’s lowest by 2035. Taiwan's total fertility rate
could drop to a historic low of 0.89 births per woman of a childbearing age this
year, down from 0.98 in 2021.
Over the pre-pandemic decade, Taiwanese...
felt daunted by the cost of buying their first homes and spent time caring for
their elders.msn.com/en-xl/money/other/taiwan-s-fertility-rate-set-to-become-world-s-lowest-by-2035-as-ticking-demographic-time-bomb-grows-louder/ar-AA13BNZd
★
<China Times>
, 2023-2-13: The birth rate of newborns
in Taiwan hit a record low last year, and long-term care issues etc in an
aging society should not be ignored ... Few people
would like to be a
social worker...
chinatimes.com/opinion/20230212002513-262101?chdtv
★
<China Times>
, 2023-5-20: Inequality and
economic recession of the common people and subaltern. Differ from
workers in high-tech industries, most salary earners struggle in low-salary and
high price of house. chinatimes.com/opinion/20230517005575-262101?chdtv
★
<China Times>
,
editorial ,
2023-5-21: When Tsai Ing-wen took office in 2016, the house price-to-income ratio is
9.32,
Mortgage Burdenis 38.34%，the
house price-to-income ratio in Q4 2022 is
9.61，Mortgage
Burdenis
40.25, showing an obvious upward trend.
As of April this year, the supply of new housing projects in the metropolitan
area has decreased by about 10% compared with the same period last year, but
prices have even continued to rise
。Given
the low wages of young people in Taiwan, what kind of price and area "suits
young people's ability" as Minister of Interior said?
？Single renters in Taipei spend an average of 35%
of their monthly salary on renting a suite. How can they save some money to buy
a house? The current unemployment rate among young people aged 25 to 29 is as
high as 6.13%. Young people can't even find a job, let alone buying a house?
chinatimes.com/opinion/20230520003246-262101?chdtv
★
《United
Daily 聯合報
》
, 2023-2-11: Deaths
from poverty continually appeared in Taiwan, some economically disadvantaged
hard to live a hand-to-mouth existence failed to meet government's social
welfare standards, our social security net was worse than broken.udn.com/news/story/7338/6964351?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2
★
《United
Daily 聯合報
》
, 2023-5-8: The sense of powerlessness
of the people of Taiwan - all kinds of misfortunes in society, such as
judiciary, joblessness, surveillance/monitors everywhere, countless
unjust cases and disputes ... look at those sufferings and
hardships people should not experienced
udn.com/news/story/121823/7149361?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub121823_pulldownmenu_v2
★
《
China Times
》editorial ,
2022-4-27:
「misery
index」1Q
is up to 6.4% chinatimes.com/opinion/20220426004891-262101?chdtv
★
<United Daily
>
editorial,
2022-3-27:
In a
seminar
in
National Cheng Kung
University,
41% students chose to embrace ‘Lying
Flat’( lie around like a couch
potato)...Soaring
housing prices have become the biggest pain for young
people...the real wage is pretty low...
★◎<United Daily
>, 2022-3-8:
According to Academia Sinica,56% husbands
feel happy, 45% wives feel happy; Gov data: nearly half
of young people, , particularly female,
born between 1981 and 1990 are still single.
udn.com/news/story/7339/6147653?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub7339_pulldownmenu_v2
★
CIA
The
World Fact Book(cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/total-fertility-rate/country-comparison),
Japan Times, 2021-4-21: CIA estimates Taiwan's "Fertility Rate" in 2021
to be world's lowest. Taiwan
ranks No. 227, probably caused by many house-wives being
busy in work as well as in household duties, according to Liberty Times
2021-4-20.
Japan ranks 218, China 185, Singapore 225.
★◎<United Daily
>, 2022-10-10:
More than 50% of the public
are dissatisfied with cross-strait relations; low wages is very
serious problem.
The average salary of more than 27% of workers is less than
NT$30,000, only a few people enjoy the fruits of Taiwan's
economic development. udn.com/news/story/123072/6674463?from=udn_ch2cate6638sub123072_pulldownmenu_v2
◎◎
★
<United Daily
>, 2022-1-1: Taiwanese
children's death rate 4.5/1000 is much higher than those
of Japan, Korea or OECD countries (average number:
1.9/1000)。udn.com/news/story/7338/6001966?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2
◎
★
《China Times, 中國時報
》editorial
, 2022-1-31: To solve
the lowest birthrate (cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/total-fertility-rate/country-comparison),
the first thing is to reduce the financial pressure of
the common people; and the most important among all is
housing prices or rent price.
However, the more new restrictions by the Central
Bank to curb rising housing prices, the higher the
housing prices rise. chinatimes.com/opinion/20220129003035-262101?chdtv
★ 《China
Times
中國時報》
,
2021-11-24:
People seem to living in a pressure cooker, there is no
way out of pain and depression, social violence is
increasing day by day, the increasing suicide rate
reflects people's desperation or hopelessness in life.
Senior officials don't even try to solve these issues.
chinatimes.com/opinion/20211123004533-262101?chdtv
★ 《China
Times
Databse 》
,
2021-11-24: Recently,
Taiwan's society is filled with disorder and violent
killing, social security is bad... (近來社會充滿失序與暴力殺戮，治安敗壞)
chinatimes.com/opinion/20211123004792-262104?chdtv
★
STATISTA, 2021-11-24 (statista.com/statistics/1078824/taiwan-crude-divorce-rate/):
The
crude divorce rate of Taiwan stood at 2.19 couples per 1,000 population
in 2020. The divorce rate peaked at 2.51 couples per 1,000 population in
2010. The total number of divorce
registrations in
Taiwan decreased to around 51.7 thousand in 2020
TAIWANnews, 2020-7-11:
One-third of Taiwanese divorces take place
within 5 years of marriage,
setting a new decade high,The average
duration of the marriages of the couples divorcing last year was 8.17
years,
(taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3964637)
★ 《China
Times
中國時報》
,
2021-8-19:
Housing price in entire Taiwan is rising "crazily"，
particularly, Taipei city, New Taipei city, HsinChu city
(新竹市) hit top ever。 Young people are facing fear
and great pain. chinatimes.com/opinion/20210818003931-262104?chdtv
◎
★◎United
Daily, Economy Daily (經濟日報) , 2021-7-15,
editorial:
Low interest rate keeps rising housing price. 5.66% yearly
growth runs faster than the growth of rate of retail price and growth of
salary, deeply influence the marriage willing of youngster generation.
udn.com/news/story/7338/5602301?from=udn-relatednews_ch2
◎
★
<聯合報
The United
Daily>, 2021-3-27:
430
thousands old senior citizens were pinned in old
apartments without an elevator, therefore are hard to
get downstairs and walk out, the number includes
not those elderly people in townhouse or row house(透天厝)。A retired
professor complained this and may do a "fake divorce" so
as to apply for a "social housing" ("Council
House")
。Many middle-class people have only a house but no cash
in the pocket, how can they deal with illness and something unexpected? brief
udn.com/news/story/7338/5347006?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2
◎
★《
United Daily》,
2021-6-17: udn.com/news/story/7340/5537697?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2
Medical expert 楊志良 project found out: under the circumstances of low
salary and high housing price, it will be less and less marriages and children
born。
◎
★ 《China
Times
中國時報》
, 2021-4-18,
opinion,
Young couples are not
willing to and do not dare to have baby - the crucial
factor: high housing price.
chinatimes.com/opinion/20210417003637-262101?chdtv
◎
★ The China Times,
2021-3-30:
Taipei youth unemployment rate
9.3% in 2020，7.7% in 2019, not to mention other cities
and towns.
chinatimes.com/opinion/20210330002865-262103?chdtv
◎
★
<聯合報
The United
Daily>, 2021-3-29:
The government knew "aged persons were trapped in old
house" but did nothing. Social housing for the
elderly people actually are only for
“top of the pyramid”,
nothing for
“middle of the pyramid”,
general social housing is used to gain youngster's
votes.
The sadness is
old people's brain, body
and pocket can not afford finding an appropriate place
to live or kept moving from one place to another.
Taiwanese landlord always rejects aged persons.
brief
udn.com/news/story/7339/5350247?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2
呂秉怡
★
<Apple
Daily>, 3-6-2021:
tw.appledaily.com/headline/20210306/HJMLA6LWAJGABED753Y4ZNFOHU/ In 2020,
122,000 couples got married, nearly
52,000 couples divorced，the divorce rate of couples
married 10+ years is up to 43.4％。
★
The Apple Daily,
editorial, Dec. 9, 2020
Rising housing price recently will make the rich are richer, but those
youngsters struggling minimum wage even do not dare to have housing dream...
today's Taiwan has been polarizing
the differences
between the rich and poor, the middle class is moving downward, not to mention
the situation of service industry's
furlough and being jobless is getting worse and worse.
tw.appledaily.com/headline/20201209/KPGCQUPML5FAXIRHL3ZDRXXPGY/
★《United
Daily - Economy Daily》editorial, Dec.
7, 2020
:
Taipei's housing price is about triple that of Tokyo or
Singapore.
https://udn.com/news/story/7338/5071620
Ratio of house price to income
Low interest rate environment is core factor to
drive Taiwan's housing price higher and higher
The
"Ratio of house price to income" of Taipei, 14.39,
means you should eat & drink nothing for 14.39 years
to buy a house
in Taipei
Taiwan
8.66
Taipei
(Taiwan)
14.39
Kao-hsiung
(Taiwan)
7.27
Tokyo (Japan)
5
Singapore
4.5
★
<The United
Daily>, 6-29-2020: Has President seen the sadness of old
people living alone ?
30.7% Taiwanese elderly live alone, or
just live with spouse, or care-giver
「 Social security network 」includes no the elderly living
alone, 「long-term care system」 services are limited and the quality varies，
Less than 20% elderly living alone were on govt.
profile to be care.
/ 聯合報 / 羅品善
◎
★ The China Times, editorial; The
hardship of Taiwanese youngsters 20:03 2020/07/12
言論 主筆室
income
differential (五等分法) : The highest
level is about 6+ times the lowest level, which worsen the number, 4~5 ,
in earlier years。
◎
★
<The
United Daily>, headline news, 12-7-2019 Word of the year 2019 in Taiwan is "chaos",
No.2 is "lie" (cheating) , No.3 is "worry".
★
pic. left: The web-site group was ranked No.1
"Taiwanese Happiness" on Yahoo,
2021-12-10,
2021-6-24,
No.2 at 2021-11-24
pic. right: No.3 "Taiwanese Happiness" on Baidu,
2021-6-24,
pic. above: The website-group was ranked No.1 "Taiwanese Happiness"
on
Bing, 2021-6-23, 1-4-2021, 6-29-2020, 11-5-2019;
No.1 "Taiwanese Happiness"
on
MetaGER.de of Europe,
11-5-2019
pic. above: No.4 "Taiwanese Happiness"
on US Google, 11-5-2019
★
<The
United Daily>, 8-26-2019: <名人堂> 楊志良: "The gap between the poor and
the rich became largest ever !"
★
★
<中國時報
The China
Times>, editorial opinion, 10-4-2019: Theproductivity of those consumer goods (lifestyle)
industries (such as general business, wholesales, retail, food,
logistics/distribution, cosmetology & hair salon, early childhood care, hotel,
etc industries with low salary and dark future ) most Taiwanese people
work on is pretty low in general； in contrast, the new rich in
Computer and electronics industries lead a great life，this leads to
an unstable society。
★
★
<The
United Daily>, <CTS> news, 2-20-2019
★
pic.: Taiwanese workers stuck at the same real salaries (wages) as
17 years ago for inflation of all prices/ UDN 2-20-2019
PS: CTS news 2-20-2019: Nearly 90% Taiwanese
workers complained about their low salaries.
★
★
<自由時報
The
Liberty Times>, summer 2019
young
worker with low pay , yearly growth NT400-600 (2018: aged 20-24 , NT27783, 2017:
NT26904, 2012: 23737)
★
<The
United Daily>, headline news, 6-10-2019
The number of elderly citizens being abused is 300% larger than that 10
years ago, a horrible find-out ! The number is just a tip of a big
iceberg ! Most of those aged people suffering domestic violence
chose not to speak out ...
★
《United
Daily
》Taiwan,
8-26-2019, headline news
"can't
afford buying a house,
salary remains, no solutions yet since 1989"
pic.: UDN, headline news,
8-26-2019:
still can't afford a house, salary remains the
same as 30 yrs ago
★
★
<聯合報
The
United Daily>, 10-25-2019: Kaohsiung city mayor (韓國瑜): People of four
classes (farmers, fishermen, plebs, labor-men) lead a good life, the whole
Taiwan will be happy (四種人 農、漁、勞工、庶民過好
全台快樂)
★
UDN group's
Economic Daily (經濟日報)
survey of 2019 shows at 11-20-2019 that <Happiness Index> of Taiwanese
― No.1
Taipei, No.2 Hsin-Chu, No.3 Tao-yuan, No.4 TaiNan.
★
★
<The
New York Times>, 2-27-2018
★
Taiwanese are "in a near panic" over shortage of tissue paper,
which highlights high price sensitivity, Taiwanese
wages stagnated for years, but housing prices went up. (brief)
◎
★《The
Economist Intelligence Unit》, UK
Taipei ranks No. 58 in the 2018 survey "The world's most livable cities".
"The 2017 global least and most stressful
cities rankings" shows Taiwan's "gender equality" No.113, "race equality" No.
78, "green space" No. 115, "social security" No.140, "physical health"
No.15, "mental health" No. 96, "air pollution" No. 92, "noise pollution" No.110,
"Density", No. 127, "public transport" No.2, "Debt per Capita" No. 43,
etc. ref to
https://www.zipjet.co.uk/2017-stressful-cities-ranking,《聯合報》, 10-3-2018
◎
★
<The
United Daily>, 2-8/9-2018,
<Apple
Daily>, 2-9-2018
Taiwan government (including local gov.)
has not well taken
its fundamental responsibility of protecting the safety of people's life and property
-
●
why are there so
many tall buildings located on the fault-zone?
●
why are poor
architectures everywhere on bad geologic grounds ?
●
why are those
shit-hole politicians doing nothing and ignoring urban renewal so as to
risk millions of old houses and human beings ??
ADN
opinion
: "
How come can Taiwan
be a country of happiness ?" (台灣怎麼會是快樂國度?),
"but that
<World
Happiness Report>
is only half-blind, because of its 6
key variables to support
well-being: income, healthy life expectancy, social
support, freedom, trust and generosity."
World Happiness Report
: Taiwan ranks No. 26 country of happiness, No. 38
immigration country...
◎
★
<The
China Times>, 4-7-2017
39.5% Taiwanese people felt blue (Melancholy)1-2 days per week,
39.2 1- days, 21.3% felt blue 3-7 days per week ; Only16.8%
won't hide their disease / 董氏基金會研究.
◎
★ 《Apple
Daily》Taiwan,
4-18-2017 headline news
It's the hardest time in Taiwan's history to buy a house... 40% monthly salary
for loan/mortgage.
◎
★《The Liberty
Times》Taiwan, 2-24-2017
Keep
eating nothing and drinking nothing for 33+ years to buy a new house in Taipei ! Taipei's Ratio of House
Price to Income is 33.3 times, New Taipei city is
20.25.
◎◎
★
tv.ifeng凤凰视频
◎
★
<United Daily news
聯合報>,《The
Liberty
Times》Taiwan,
2-25-2017
Taiwanese
employee's real wages (average monthly) of last year is lower than that of 16
years ago. The average number of the real wages of about 70%
employee is less than NT40000, 36.72% is less than NT30000. The youth's
low salary is a serious problem, jobless rate is still high.
◎
★
★
<United Daily news聯合報>,
head page, 12-10-2016
The word
of 2016 selected is "苦"
("hardship", "pain"). ps:
The word of 2008 till now respectively is : 2008「亂」(mess)、2009「盼」(long
for)、2010「淡」(thin; pale)、2011「讚」(good)、2012「憂」(worry)、2013「假」(fake)、2014「黑」(black)
and 2015「換」(change). http://udn.com/news/story/1/2158738
★
★
<CTS
HD>,
5-23-2016 1:25pm,
"華視新聞雜誌"
17 million
Taiwanese people ( totally 23 million population) live in "potential danger"
(潛在危險) houses,
according to
<遠見>study,
Taiwanese people gave a "failure" score (53.5) on "living safety".
★
★
<the
Liberty Times自由時報>,
5-4-2016
"Misery!
the starting monthly salary (NT27,655,
about USD900)
of college students is lower than that
(NT28,016 about USD900+)
of 16 years ago",
according to governmental statistics.
★
★
<the
Liberty Times自由時報>,
5-4-2016
A survey found Taiwanese mother's "happiness index" is "D" score (68)
for economic burden, supports from partner and relatives are not enough, etc.
★
★
<United Daily news 聯合報>, 3-28-2016 Government
becomes the
exploiter!
UDN poll found 89% Taiwanese agree the
gap/disparity between rich and poor is serious, only 7% disagree. 63%
Taiwanese agree social injustice/inequality. The youth are confused where
the opportunity is, the labor groups scream social injustice is from bad to
worse...
◎
★
<United Daily news>, 4-28-2016
J.P. Morgan survey found Taiwanese " Happiness Index after retirement" is an
almost "Failure" score.
◎
★
CTV , 3-14-2016 21:29, China Times, 4-28-2015
One Taiwanese got Karoshi (died from overwork) per 10 days in
average.
Taiwan is an island of slave workers - Taiwanese salary low, long working hours
ranks world No. 3, estimate Taiwanese work 3 months more than Germany per
year...
★
★
<Lloyd's >, 9-17-2015
Lloyd's
City Risk Index 2015-2025 analyses the potential impact on the economic output
(GDP risk) of 301 of the world's major cities, Taipei was ranked world No.1 -
within the next 10 years, Taipei is estimated to loss 45% of GDP, about USD18120
billion, 44.78% of them is for typhoons, 16.38% earthquakes, 15.77%
(global) financial markets are volatile .
◎
★
<the Liberty Times>, 8-4-2015
Keep
eating and drinking nothing for 16+ years to buy a house in Taipei !
5 major cities' (Taipei, New
Taipei, Taichung, Tainan, Kaohsiiung ) the Ratio of House
Price to Income and house load
affordability rate (房貸負擔率)
all reach new high since Taiwan's first-time survey being conducted in 2002.
Besides, Taiwanese payroll (compensation level薪資) retreated, so it's even harder
(higher misery index) for citizens to buy a house.
Ratio of House Price to Income (times) and house load affordability
rate (%)
of major cities in Qtr.1, 2015 : Taipei 16.16, 68.63, New Taipei City 12.78,
55.27, Taoyuan 7.17, 30.44, TaiChung 8.53,36.22 ,TaiNan 6.69, 28.42, Kaohsiung 7.88,
33.46, all these are higher than the number published in 5-12-2015.
In UBS's
"most expensive cities" report, Taipei was ranked No. 26. - but No. 42 in
the report of last time.
◎
★
<the Liberty Times自由時報>, 8-5-2015
According to latest survey, Taiwanese
fathers work so hard that 76% of them prefer escaping from working field back
home for a rest. Some other findings include, in average 2.4 days for
overtime-working per week, 43% of
them don't have any pocket money to spend,
each week only 2.9 days they can
have dinner together with their children.
◎
★
The China Times,
10-12-2015
Taipei's High house price led to extremely low (超低) fertility rate in Taiwan.
◎
★
The China Times, 9-21-2015
Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, R.O.C.
published rankings of OECD (2015), Taiwan's environmental quality was ranked
No.35 within 37 countries, Taiwan's air pollution index,
particulate matter
- PM10 being up to 41 ug/m3, already was ranked No. 36 for consecutively 2 years.
Besides, a drinking water survey conducted by Taiwan's government last year
found
57.2％ of Taiwanese complained their water smelling stinky, or/and like liquid-medicine,
54.1％ complained water containing precipitate,
impurity and something else,
29.1％
complained bad taste, 22.3% complained their water with color or turbidity, 5.6％
don't even trust water quality.
◎
★
United Daily News, 12-9-2015 headline
GermanWatch global climate change performance index published a
comparison of the 58 top CO2 emitting nations, Taiwan was ranked 52th among 58
in the list.
◎
★
Taipei Times, 3-20-2015
Fulbright
foreign academic : Taiwanese are depressed ...
At the Fulbright Association's 37th
Annual Conference in Taipei, a foreign academic asked Taiwan president Ma's
opinion on what was causing the men (Chinese "悶" means "depressed" and
"unhappy", the academic said it "a feeling of
stagnation, or having no way
forward") which many Taiwanese said they were feeling. Ma's remarks
( he did not know of "such a widespread phenomenon”and so on) provoked
criticism: Taiwanese government policies continue to favor large corporations,
while workers' wages have regressed to the same level as 1999, people have
evidently had enough, which led to last year's mass protests and the storming of
the Legislative Yuan in Taipei. (brief
of report)
◎
★
<the Liberty Times自由時報>, 12-7-2015
Taiwanese government policy, NT22000 monthly salary's Anchoring Effect, resulted
in youth income retreated about 18 years - average salary of youth
aged less than 39 is bit less than that of youth around 1999.
◎
★
Liberty Times, 3-23-2015
Who depressed Taiwanese?
(台灣的悶是誰造成的？)
Taiwan's
economy dependency (policy inclination) on communist China,
domestic industrial
inanition/ hollowing-out, salary going back, losing
working opportunity, commodity prices having gone up
(inflation of prices), huge state
government debt, people can not afford buying house, can
not afford having marriage and children, young
generation becoming poor people, disparity between rich and poor became larger
... http://talk.ltn.com.tw/article/paper/865349
(brief)
◎
★
United Daily News, 3-21-2015
We're all really
depressed and unhappy !
(誰很悶？我們真的都很悶
! )
(1) Can't afford housing by our
salary (2) Lousy administrative efficiency
and legislative efficiency (3) Lousy quality of entertainment (4)
Unclear nation's positioning (5) Politicians of both sides dish the dirt about
each other (6) Bad prosecutors and judiciary system, too many vultures and
not-real-world judges/bad prosecutors ... (7) Food scandals
by
Chang 張瑞雄／台北商業大學校長 http://udn.com/news/story/7339/779404-%E8%AA%B0%E5%BE%88%E6%82%B6%EF%BC%9F%E6%88%91%E5%80%91%E7%9C%9F%E7%9A%84%E9%83%BD%E5%BE%88%E6%82%B6 (brief
)
◎
★
United Daily News, 4-25-2015 Eat &
drink nothing, See & hear no evil, Taiwanese feel happy this way?
(不吃不喝、不看不聽 台灣人這樣快樂？)
an editorial critique questioning & responding to TW's ranking no. 38 in UN survey
on happiness
/ critic 孫亦文
... Only if you had nothing
breakfast containing animal drugs more than maximal residue allowed or virus/germs (Escherichia
coli), tea drink with over-limited-of-detection pesticide, mineral water made by
(under)ground-water,
Illegal import of banned (suspiciously polluted) food products from Japan...
moreover, if you don't care politics, don't watch TV news ... most important of all,
if you
win a lottery, that will be the happiest thing ! Who said Taiwanese are unhappy?
details pls. ref. to http://udn.com/news/story/7339/861333-%E4%B8%8D%E5%90%83%E4%B8%8D%E5%96%9D%E3%80%81%E4%B8%8D%E7%9C%8B%E4%B8%8D%E8%81%BD-%E5%8F%B0%E7%81%A3%E4%BA%BA%E9%80%99%E6%A8%A3%E5%BF%AB%E6%A8%82%EF%BC%9F
◎
★ Liberty Times,
4-1-2015
According to a
survey conducted by John Tung Foundation
(董氏基金會),
every 1 out of 4 or 5 university students
are obviously
depressed
(PS: melancholia).
◎
★
United Daily News, June 5, 2014
(Living edition A6)
1/3 Taiwanese feel
unhappy according
to a local survey. (MD suggests having Vitamin C,
fruits/vegetables to help emotional stability) (brief
)
◎
★
CTV(<中視>),
4-3-2015 evening news, 19:22pm
A survey concerning Happiness found that 30%
Taiwanese children only have less than 3 days per
week to eating together with their parents, nearly 25% children are
not satisfied at
current situation...
("不滿現狀").
◎
★
United Daily News, 5-22-2015
According to a
survey conducted by John Tung Foundation
(董氏基金會),
about every 1 out of 2 Taiwanese women is
physically unhappy (身體不快樂)
...
◎
★
The China Times, 8-3-2014
Taiwan's Happiness Index Top,
Taiwanese said "No Way !"
According to Taiwanese Happiness Index published by Taiwan's government,
Taiwan ranked the 18th in 37 countries joining the poll.
This
report provoked Taiwanese people criticisms: "Is it possible
? happiness? No way !" (「怎麼可能幸福？」),
"Totally phony survey" (根本是「編來被罵的」). http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20140830000346-260102
(brief
)
◎
★
Apple Daily
, 9-4-2014「台灣女性性生活滿意度調查」),
about 80% unmarried female are not satisfied about their sexual life, nearly 40%
Taiwanese women are not satisfied their sexual life.
◎
★
CNA
Central News Agency, Taiwan(<中央社>)
，
March
8, 2012
For this national Women's Day,
DPP legislative members in a press conference
listed Taiwan's 5 problems leading to Taiwanese women's unhappiness
― reduced
income, food (birds-flu chickens, Paylean beef, etc) may get illness,
unequal pay for female ( salary 17.6%
less
for same work by the male), workplace not
comfortable
( female victims accounted for 97.15% of all sexual
harassment cases ) , difficult to get promotion ( women only 1/4
of high-end civil
servants/officials ).
◎
★
Satisfaction with
Life Index
Satisfaction Index
- International ranking 2006 : Taiwan
No.68;
Singapore No. 53,
Hong Kong No. 63, China No. 82; top 3 nations are Denmark, Swiss, Austria,
The US No. 23.
The Satisfaction with Life
Index was created by Adrian G. White, an analytic social
psychologist at the University of Leicester, using data from a
metastudy. It is an attempt to show life satisfaction in different
nations.
In this
calculation, subjective well being correlates most strongly with
health (.7), wealth (.6), and access to basic education
This is an example of directly
measuring happiness—asking people how happy they are—as an
alternative to traditional measures of policy success such as GDP or
GNP. Some studies suggest that happiness can be measured
effectively.
This Index, however, is not
solely based on directly asking "how people feel", but also on its
social and economic development
◎
★
Happy Planet Index (HPI) ―
New Economics Foundation (NEF)
Taiwan ranks
world No. 84, score 43.41 , China ranks No. 31, score 55.99 in 2006
The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is an
index of human well-being and environmental impact that was introduced by the
New Economics Foundation (NEF) in July 2006. The index is weighted to give
progressively higher scores to nations with lower ecological footprints.
◎
★
The World Happiness Report ―
the United Nations
In 2013, Taiwan ranks the 42th (score 6.221), South Korea ranks 41th
(6.267), Singapore 30th (6.546), US 17th (7.082);
Denmark, Norway, Swiss,
Holland, Sweden are top 5, China is not included in the list.
The World Happiness
Report is a measure of happiness published by the United Nations Sustainable
Development Solutions Network. The report is edited by Professor John F.
Helliwell, of the University of British Columbia and the Canadian Institute for
Advanced Research; Lord Richard Layard, Director of the Well-Being Programme at
LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance; and
Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University,
Director of the SDSN, and Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General...
◎
★
Apple Daily (<蘋果日報>)
,
11-29-2012
"Taiwan is not happy !" (Politics edition,
by
余艾苔)
All index
scores of Taiwanese happiness fell, according to the 4th QTR survey conducted by
<遠見>,
in
that paper,
most Taiwanese people are not happy, and pessimistic about our society...
◎
★
China
Post, 4-6-2012
According to the
World Happiness Report conducted by the Earth Institute (EI) of Columbia
University, entrusted by the United Nations General Assembly,
Taiwan ranks 46th happiest country in the world.
EI revealed that happiness could not simply be achieved by
acquiring monetary wealth. Instead, at a national level, happiness — or
well-being (幸福) — is built on an array of factors, including political freedom,
strong social networks and an absence of corruption. On the
individual level, having strong mental and physical health, trustworthy
relationships, job security, and stable families are all crucial factors that
contribute to personal happiness.
★
2011
DPP opinion polls <the
Liberty Times>,
Taiwan, May 8, 2011
( Mother's
Day )
◎ 54.9%
female (age 20-49) : Taiwanese mother are
not happy.
◎ details
(1)
Taiwanese mother "kind (bit)
unhappy" : 34.5%
(2) "very unhappy": 20.4%
(3) "kind (bit) happy" :
33.9%
(4) "very happy" : 7.4%
(5) Not willing to have
baby at present : 87.3%
― reasons include having enough kid(s), economic burden,
not married yet, cannot have baby for age or health etc,
not willing to give birth, living environment not good ...(brief
)
◎
★
ECA int'l "the best place to reside"
―
Not Taipei ranked behind !
According to 2009 ECA International "the best place to reside", Taipei
ranked world No. 57, Singapore
ranked world No.1 , Asia's No.
2 and 3, Hong Kong, Tokyo, both ranked world No. 15.
Taipei ranked No.55 in 2010, Singapore still ranked world No. 1.
◎
◎
★
Taipei Times, 8-31-2013
Index shows Taiwanese are moderately happy
People in Taiwan enjoy a “moderate
level” of happiness compared with their peers in nations in the Organisation for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), according to the national happiness
index released by the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS)
. The
results also showed Taiwan's material living conditions are better than its
quality of life.
◎
★
Apple Daily News, editorial ,
Sept. 23, 2011
"National
Sexual Prison "(「國立性煉獄」)
: What a shame on Taiwanese government !
So
many sexual harassment crimes , and sexual assault cases in
Taiwan,
...... far more than
the number reported by media,
we can say
Taiwan has already became a society
hostile to the female. Shame on all Taiwanese,
particularly, shame on Taiwanese government......(brief
)
◎
★ 2011
USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices, April 8, 2011
Violence against women, including rape and domestic
violence, remained a serious
problem.
(estimated that
the total number of rape, spousal rape was 10 times the number
reported to the police,
◎
★
USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices,
2.27.2014
Rape and Domestic Violence: The law
criminalizes rape, including spousal rape, and domestic violence. Because
victims were socially stigmatized, many did not report the crime, and the
Ministry of Interior estimated that the total number of sexual
assaults was 10 times the number reported to
police.
★ French
Reporters Sans Frontieres and US. Freedom
House, 2014
Paris-based <Reporters Sans Frontieres>:
Taiwan’s ranking for press freedom fell three notches from last year.
Freedom House: Taiwan's
media freedom declines again
(BBC: declines for consecutive 3 years).
★
Taiwan's poll, 2012 ~2013
According to
2013 survey (Dec. 10, 2013)
conducted by
The
Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD )
& SHU
that shows a
"F"
score (rating 2.7/5.0 points) on
overall human rights status
―
in
decline for a third consecutive year
(judiciary,
fair trials.
non-corruption, communication privacy, health rights... all
fail). According to
2012 survey (Dec. 4, 2012)
by the Taipei-based Chinese Association for Human Rights, 43.4% of
the respondents rated Taiwan's overall
performance in human rights protection this year as either “bad”
or “very bad”
, only 38 percent of
Taiwanese held positive views on Taiwan's
human rights of this year, which is far worse
than 57 percent of last year... <Apple daily News> comments
Taiwan's freedom of speech is in retreat,
and scholars worry about Taiwan's democracy doesn't work well, <Taiwan News>
uses the headline "Taiwan's human rights get
thumbs-down in poll!"...
◎
★
Foreign Policy, 2015
Taiwan Not democratic!
In <Foreign Policy>, Taipei's new mayor Ko
expressed "Does Taiwan have
democracy? Real democracy means
politics belongs to the people. Taiwanese politics belongs to corporations and
is controlled by political parties."
◎
★
Common Wealth Magazine,
6-29-2012 Scholar: It's a "Pass" score/grade.
Taiwan Happiness Index
65.94 - A Middling Score on Happiness
Closer analysis of the
five main metrics comprising the index shows that Taiwanese feel happiest about
"Family Life," which accounted for 16.65 points of the overall happiness score.
That was followed, in descending order, by "Physical and Mental Health" (16.13
points), "Social Relations" (13.47 points) and "Employment Situation" (12.74
points), with the lowest score being "Political and Economic Climate" (6.95
points).
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