A close friend of mine is watching a mini series on Netflix. It shows the trials and tribulations of the younger Millenials, Gen X and Gen Z in China working so hard to get wealthy or at least stay in the same socioeconomic level as the rest of their cohort.This sense of 'involution' or compete and succeed at all costs can be very troubling for society, in my honest opinion.
Involution - an inward turning or rolling back of
Its application in the following :
a) Mathematics : - (-x) = x (I can hear the audible 'ah ha's from the logical and STEM readers).
b) Biology :The shrinking or the return of the organ back to its original size, like the shrinking of the uterus back to its original size after childbirth.
c) General : A process of becoming more complex, inward or entangled.
d) Social / economic use : Excessive internal competition where people work harder but do not proportionally get the expected or better results. This normally applies to China society today with regards to its education, the rat race, and workplace culture.
> An example sentece is this. "The company suffered from involution, with teams competing internally with each other instead of creating real growth".
This can be applied our Government of the day. In Singapore too. Are our civil service sectors operating in silos and adopting an 'hands-off' approach and going all out to boost only their performance at the expense of other social and community responsibilities ?
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