What is the definition of involution?

Involution is defined as peers competing to exert more effort to compete for limited resources.

Volume refers to a scroll in ancient times, and is now a general name for books. Involution means to bend an object inwards into a cylindrical shape. Used as an Internet buzzword, it refers to the phenomenon in which peers compete for more efforts to compete for limited resources, resulting in a decline in individual "benefit-to-effort ratio". This is an anthropological academic concept that extends to competition, believing that high-intensity competition makes people exhausted.

Introduction to involution:

Involution, an Internet buzzword, originally refers to a type of cultural model that has reached a certain final form and has no way to stabilize or change. A phenomenon that takes on new forms and can only continue to become more complex internally? After spreading on the Internet, many college students use it to refer to irrational internal competition or "voluntary" competition.

It now refers to the phenomenon in which peers compete for more efforts to compete for limited resources, resulting in a decline in the individual's "benefit-to-effort ratio". Think of it as "inflation" of effort.