Reflections on the Original Internal Examination Paper

Original source: China Education Online International Education Channel special expert Gao Qingxia contributed.

Involution, which literally means "inward evolution", refers to a phenomenon that a social or cultural model can neither be stabilized nor transformed into a new form after it has developed to a certain stage, but can only become more complicated internally. Spread through the Internet, it is used to refer to irrational internal competition or "voluntary" competition, in which peers make more efforts to compete for limited resources, resulting in the decline of individual "income-effort ratio".

Recently, I chatted with some friends. Every time I talked about my work, I often heard such comments, "We work overtime every day, and we are very rolled up …", and my eyes revealed fatigue and helplessness. A friend who joined the internet industry shortly after graduation described it this way, "Our wave is even bigger. In order to supervise the task, the leaders require us newcomers to send daily work reports every day. At the beginning, everyone could send emails at about 8 pm. Later, a classmate was praised for working overtime. Everyone compared to sending work emails in the middle of the night, as if whoever sent them later was working harder … ". Another friend, who has worked hard in the workplace for many years, currently works as a product manager of a large factory. She describes her work status as follows: "I seem to have endless meetings, either during the day or on the way to the meeting … After all kinds of communication meetings, it is basically evening time, and then I work overtime to deal with my own affairs. It is normal to work from 10 to 10, and it is common to get off work in the early morning." She reluctantly spread her hands, and then said, "I feel as busy as a bee in 2022, but there is nothing to be proud of at the end of the year." The PPT contest at the end of the year is very important for our product manager. Tired every day, there is no innovation in work content, so we can only work hard on PPT format and packaging. My year-end PPT has been changed more than ten times, not only word by word, but also color matching and charts have to be carefully crafted. Upward management and PPT reporting are important rules for survival in large factories. In order to show that you and your team have enough value to the company,Everyone has to rack their brains to find grades, and they have to be able to make them up without grades … "

1. Limited resources and excessive competition

2, prisoner’s dilemma, psychological entanglement

3, the standard of success is too single.

2, the final thinking, looking for work motivation.