Through the Internet, many college students use it to refer to irrational internal competition or "voluntary" competition. Now it refers to the phenomenon that peers compete for limited resources and make more efforts, which leads to the decline of individual "income-effort ratio"
First, involution
1, an online buzzword, originally refers to a cultural pattern, which has reached a certain final form. There is no way to stabilize it or change it into a new form, and it can only become more complicated internally.
2. Through the Internet, many college students use it to refer to irrational internal competition or "voluntary" competition. Now it refers to the phenomenon that peers compete for limited resources and make more efforts, which leads to the decline of personal "income-effort ratio", which can be regarded as "inflation" of efforts.
Second, the source of words.
1, involution is an academic term, which is often used as involution in academic literature. Economist Wei Sen believes that the concept of involution was first used by the German philosopher Kant in his book Critique of Judgment.
2. Two anthropologists put forward the concept of involution. One is Alexander Aleksandrovic Gordon weiser, who called it involution in cultural patterns, a phenomenon that cannot be stabilized or transformed into a new form after reaching a certain final form.
3. Involution later spread to college students, office workers and other groups, and gradually evolved into a popular online vocabulary, which was used to spit out the current situation of excessive social competition pressure, and also gave birth to various short cartoons or short videos around involution.