Early on serious unemployment in Taiwan made individual entrepreneurship essential, giving rise to slogans like "every home a factory." Given the uncertainty of finding a job, many people had no choice but to strike out on their own and create their own companies with themselves as the boss.
當年台灣為瞭解決龐大的就業問題，鼓勵民眾自行創業，提出如「家庭即工廠」等口號；許多人在尋不到有保障的工作的情況下，只有奮力一搏，自己出來當老闆。