"Regardless of whether it's blue-collar or white-collar workers, experiences like that of the Wu family have definitely shown a significantly increasing trend in recent years," agrees Minister without Portfolio Lin Wan-I. Some middle-income households that once enjoyed a certain economic status have been struggling to stay afloat in an environment of ever-intensifying competition, while some have even found themselves on elevators whose lines have snapped, sending them plunging downward at speed.
「不分藍領、白領，類似吳家的遭遇，近年確有大幅上升趨勢，」行政院政務委員林萬億也同意，這些原本經濟有一定水準的中間收入家庭，有部分在日趨競爭的環境中載浮載沈，也有一部分人卻是搭著斷線的電梯，直墜而下。