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At what point does incompetence become fraud?
submitted 2 years ago by jet199 from medium.com
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[–]ShalomEveryone 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (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.
Shalom
[–]jet199[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun - 2 years ago (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 - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (1 child)
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.
[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun - 2 years ago (0 children)
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.
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