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Re:The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero by derekzhouzhen on Saturday September 03, 2022 @10:41PM (#32709234)
The benefit to a low level of fraud is that people are still looking out for fraud, so the society is more robust. If there was no fraud, and someone just invent fraud (it will happen), the damage could be devastating.
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Re:The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero by bryanrasmussen on Saturday September 03, 2022 @10:56PM (#32709317)
they would have to be Moriarty level like in their inventiveness, most people start low and then expand their inventiveness with experience, the low early frauds would establish the new invention in the society.

Also The invention of Lying: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1058017/

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