Sometimes I recommend people to go to high pressure sales meetings, such as the ones where they try to sell time-shares (is that still a thing?). They'll pick you up at the hotel on a limo, and offer you free tickets to some shows if you go. It is insanely annoying, but it's a great exercise on your ability to say no under psychological pressure. They will try to attack you at your most core values and the moment you realize it is an attempt to manipulate you, you develop some immunity to it - the said ability to say "leave now".
On the time-share, the poor third (!) salesperson who tried to convince me surrendered to the math - US$100K for a week, for a ~300K apartment was about US$ 5 million, which was the going price for apartments in the very fancy building next to it. At that point they relented, gave us the tickets (they were sold out at the venue) and drove us back to our hotel.
There was a Reeses commercial about "your devices are listening to you" for example, and other stuff that I probably should not boost by describing specifically. But basically there's a new form that's pretty openly self-aware about "yeah this is unpleasant to watch, but what are you going to do, actually turn off your TV? just give us your money." When this stuff first appeared I thought the writing was just subpar, or that maybe the idea was that the public just can't parse anything more subtle. But it's more that anxiety still sells even if you're being blatant about stuff, and if you can create anxiety that isn't actually present yet, then you might be making society sicker but you're still making your ads more effective
I'm not in a position where I deal with actual human salespeople that often, but we're all products of the culture we're embedded in. So I assume that's gotten more masks-off crazy and feral too.. just very openly trying to find your anxieties and squeeze.