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Wealth Awakening

Living on NT$38,000 a Month in Taipei Is "Survival Mode": How That Classmate They Called Unambitious Quietly Bought a Home

A monthly salary of NT$38,000 in Taipei is a precisely engineered loop of tragedy—it keeps you from starving, and absolutely keeps you from saving. Ah-De, the 35-year-old office worker, was the office pushover everyone agreed on. After five years he got a raise of NT$3,000, while Taipei home prices climbed NT$200,000 per ping. It wasn't until a junior-high class reunion that he finally understood what that "unambitious" classmate had won at.

6 min
Wealth Awakening

Living Like a Dog on NT$50,000 a Month in Taipei: Promotion and Raise — The Cruelest Scam in This Society

The day he got his first NT$50,000 paycheck, Xiaocheng thought his life was finally on track. Two years later, he realized that sense of solidity didn't come from having more money, but from the illusion of "people seeing you as a success." Promotion and raise is the cruelest scam in this society — it makes you trade the rest of your life for a ticket you can never catch up to.

7 min