At what point does incompetence become fraud?

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In politics, never attribute to stupidity or incompetence what you can attribute to willful criminal intent.

[–]ShalomEveryone 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

At no point does incompetence becomes fraud.

incompetence

inability to do something successfully; ineptitude: allegations of professional incompetence.

fraud

wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain: he was convicted of fraud | prosecutions for social security frauds.

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[–]jet199[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

You aren't helping yourself with this word play.

Clearly if someone says they can do something they can't is one instance incompetence becomes fraud by your own definitions.

[–]ShalomEveryone 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You aren't helping yourself with this word play.

No word play my friend, incompetence does not lead to fraud. If it did then it would not be called incompetence. Someone being incompetent is not trying to defraud someone or something.

Clearly if someone says they can do something they can't

If someone lies and said they can do something when they cant then it's not incompetence. It's fraud because that person lied about their ability in order to get money.

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But, as you yourself wrote the definition of incompetence:

inability to do something successfully;

Then being incompetent and lying about it is fraud, as you write, but it is ALSO incompetence. Otherwise it wouldn't be fraud to assert you can do something, if you actually can.