"It's not that Taiwanese are not smart enough or industrious enough. It's simply that this industry is extremely demanding on people, and that applies to both quality and quantity," Verdon says. "Looking at Taiwan's population growth rate and related figures, and it certainly looks like there may be a steep falloff in the availability of needed skilled workers in the future."
「不是台灣人不聰明、不用功，只是這個產業對人的要求，無論是質或量，都非常嚴苛，」游維德認為，「看看台灣的人口增加率以及其他相關數據，未來人才供應的確可能出現斷層。」