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He said he found it surprising how the "relatively well-educated civil servant cohort does not have the good judgment to stand up to fake news or rumors."

"I'm 32 now and will be 45 or 46 when the pension funds are predicted to run dry. Right now, NT$3,000 is being deducted from my salary every month to pay into the pension fund. Unless something changes I basically won't be seeing any of the money I'm putting in right now," he said during a telephone interview.

Finding Middle Ground

"Other young civil servants wanted a more radical approach: a clear division along generational lines to pursue reform objectives. But our viewpoint is different: a country's pension system is built on generations paying into it to support the next — so when we hear these opinions we have to take them into account and make adjustments accordingly," he said.

And even among groups supporting reform positions were diverse. Chou emphasized repeatedly during our conversation that TCSIC could not possibly represent all of its members.

Chou, whose own family includes retired civil servants was initially asked why he wanted to involve himself in the issue.

Galvanized by Lin's open letter to the Tsai administration, Chou later became the organizations' spokesman for government-held discussion panels on pension reform.

Whereas older civil servants and retirees rally easily to the call of resisting cuts to their benefits, for many young people, the pension issue seems like a distant problem full of obtrusive technical terms and legalese.

In the video, the inefficiencies of the public policy process are assessed from day one, when isolated groups formulate policy based on their own internal discussions. By the time the policy has been finalized and outsiders, including the media, find out about its deficiencies, the group is forced to push through an alternative that is still unconvincing. The short clip ends by asking: "Everybody sees the problem with this: what can be done to save the government?"

TAIPEI 翻譯公司 Taiwan -- No recent social issue has better demonstrated the fracturing potential of Taiwan's economic woes, its looming demographic crisis and its generational divide than that of pension reform.

"Traditionally, the only thing demanded of civil servants was that they follow orders. But we think that new modes of politics should be more bottom up in order to benefit the system as a whole. The TCSIC provides civil servants the space for policy discussions, skills training and a channel for voicing their opinions," Lin told The China Post.

Faced with impending bankruptcy, the issue of propping up the convoluted funds has been framed across party lines as a ticking time bomb.

But flying under the media's radar has been a younger generation of civil servants, who not only want pension reforms to proceed, but also changes to the very definition of public service itself.

One such group has been the Taiwan Civil Service Innovation Coalition (TCSIC, 公務革新力

Politicians in the past balked at diffusing the crisis 翻譯公司 aware their policy choices could very well blow up in their face.