{ I think this paradox must have had another established name even before antiviruses, but I wasn't able to find anything. If you know it, let me know. ~drummyfish }
Antivirus paradox is the paradox of someone who's job it is to eliminate certain undesirable phenomenon actually having an interest in keeping this phenomenon existing so as to keep his job. A typical example is an [antivirus](antivirus.md) company having an interest in the existence of dangerous [viruses](virus.md) and malware so as to keep their business running; in fact antivirus companies themselves secretly create and release viruses and malware.
It is a known phenomenon that many firefighters are also passionate arsonists because society simply rewards them for [fighting](fight_culture.md) fires (as opposed to rewarding them for the lack of fires).
In [capitalism](capitalism.md) and other systems requiring people to have jobs this paradox prevents progress, i.e. actual elimination of undesirable phenomena, hence capitalism and similar systems are anti-progress. And not only that, the system pressures people to artificially creating new undesirable phenomena (e.g. lack of [women](woman.md) in tech and similar [bullshit](bs.md)) just to create new jobs that "fight" this phenomena. In a truly good society where people are not required to have jobs and in which people aim to eliminate [work](work.md) this paradox disappears.
By extension this also leads to the creation of [bullshit jobs](bullshit_job.md), i.e. not only are there people with an interest on preserving negative phenomena but there are also people with an interest in creating new negative phenomena, "[fighting](fight_culture.md)" of which can then serve as a basis for creating a new job for themselves. For example if [LGBT](lgbt.md) inventions an issue of "not enough gay people in IT", they can then start creating "diversity departments" to guarantee themselves a comfy job.
