In Taiwan Mandarin 數位 Shu-wei, which is the name of my ministry and of my role, means both digital and plural, it is the same word in Taiwan. So, a digital minister is also a minister for plurality. Plural means more than one. As Hannah Arendt did in a beautiful exposition on the human condition. Plurality is about analyzing the human condition, not as individuals, not as an aggregation of individuals, but as plurality, as people sharing common knowledge, common identities, together and acting in association instead of just as individuals. Money as an instrument often only characterizes individual accounts, which is why it got a private sector, right?

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