Taiwan is now an affluent society, and when people gain affluence they become more concerned about losing what they have. Many of those made rich overnight by rocketing property values live with the possibility of being ruined in a crash, and therefore maintain a fatalistic belief in the fickleness of fortune.
今天的台灣生活富裕，富裕之後更怕失去，許多人因房地產飆漲而一夕致富，又可能因股票大跌而賣樓。