involution
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The most famous are "lying flat", when people opt out of the rat race entirely, and "involution", a rather clunky term now commonly used to describe intense competition which generates little meaningful reward.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
This process is called thymic involution, and it reduces the body's ability to produce new T cells.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 29, 2025
Tackling involution at its root, many economists argue, would require a fundamental restructuring of the economic system that puts consumer spending in the driver’s seat, rather than leaning on investments and manufacturing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025
“I thought by opening a stall I could escape the involution of looking for work,” one vendor wrote on Xiaohongshu.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
There is nothing, apparently, studied about it, no ornament or involution, no otiose epithets, no subtle allusiveness.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
