"Industry boomed and the economy flourished in the 1950s and 1960s," says Sung. "But government officials brought about this prosperity by making a decision to sacrifice the agricultural economy on the altar of industrial growth. That led to migration out of rural villages and a breakdown in traditional ways of life."
宋澤萊認為，「1950、60 年代，台灣工業起飛、經濟繁榮的背後，其實是執政者有計劃的犧牲農業成就工業發展的騙局，造成農村人口外流，傳統生活被解構。」