"My father wasn't the kind of man who would work himself to death for a buck," he says. He notes that a cash economy has only taken root on Orchid Island in the last dozen or so years. Since then, his generation of Tao fathers has begun to find their inability to make money a problem. This is also something that bothers him about himself.
「我的父親不曾為錢奔波賣命，」夏曼藍波安說，貨幣經濟「登陸」蘭嶼，不過是這十幾年的事，如今「不會賺錢」卻成了這一代達悟父親的弱點，也是自己最討厭自己的地方。