Derived from American anthropologist Clifford Geertz's book "Agricultural involution: the process of economic change in Indonesia" 1963.
Many college students use it to refer to irrational internal competition or "voluntary" competition. Now it also refers to the phenomenon that peers compete for limited resources and make more efforts, which leads to the decline of individual "income-effort ratio", which can be regarded as "inflation" of efforts.
Example: ① There are advantages and disadvantages in the involvement of violence among students in universities. ? The intense involution in universities has both advantages and disadvantages.
The internal disputes in that company are very fierce. That company is deeply involved.
"involution" can also be said: "mouse race" is a vivid expression, just like the mouse in the cage has been running hard.
People who say that they are flat but work hard secretly are called cabbage.
We are taught to believe that only by going to the best schools and getting the best grades can we escape the fierce competition and create a better future. We are taught to believe that only by going to the best schools and getting the best grades can we escape the life-and-death competition and create a better future.