"Quantity" refers to "involution", that is, after a cultural model reaches a certain final form, it can neither be stabilized nor transformed into a new form, but can only become more complicated internally.

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.

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In addition, there is a word called "involution", which refers to the phenomenon that after a certain social (cultural model) reaches a certain form at a certain stage of development, this form will stagnate and it is difficult to transform into another high-level model, thus locking itself in a low-level state and repeating the cycle.

Involution is often associated with negation and negative content. More different from ordinary negative content, the involution represents the parties' very negative attitude towards themselves.