Recently deceased economic planner Chao Yao-tong argued vociferously against this "National Taiwan University to the United States" career track on the grounds that this kind of brain drain was disastrous for Taiwan, a developing nation that badly needed these people to help it progress.
這種「來來來，來台大；去去去，去美國」的現象，早年曾招致日前剛去世的「鐵頭部長」趙耀東大肆撻伐，畢竟對百廢待舉的開發中國家而言，高階腦力流失，對國家發展的影響不言可喻。