Antivirus Paradox { 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 [1]job. A typical example is an [2]antivirus company having an interest in the existence of dangerous [3]viruses and [4]malware so as to keep their business running; in fact antivirus companies themselves secretly create and release viruses and malware. Cases of said behavior are common, e.g. the bind-torture-kill serial killer used to work as a seller of home security alarms who installed alarms for people who were afraid of being invaded by the bind-torture-killer, and then used his knowledge of the alarms to break into the houses -- a typical capitalist business. It is also a known phenomenon that many firefighters are passionate arsonists because society simply praises them for [5]fighting fires (as opposed to rewarding them for the lack of fires). In [6]capitalism and similar systems requiring people to have jobs this paradox prevents [7]progress, that is to say 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 (like a "lack of [8]women in tech" and similar [9]bullshit) just to create new [10]bullshit jobs that "[11]fight" this phenomena. In a truly good society where people are not required to have jobs and in which people aim to eliminate [12]work this paradox largely disappears. Links: 1. work.md 2. antivirus.md 3. virus.md 4. malware.md 5. fight_culture.md 6. capitalism.md 7. progress.md 8. woman.md 9. bs.md 10. bs_job.md 11. fight_culture.md 12. work.md