“So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they think are unnecessary”

Re:“So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they... by TeMPOraL on Sunday March 22, 2015 @12:48PM (#9247405)

Useful for humanity. Because "useful for employee" or "useful for employer" are bad measures that allow really stupid things to exist.

This job is based on lying and/or deceiving to people to trick them into buying somethng. Whoever is paying for it is actively hurting other humans. In a way it's worse than bullshit - it's a malicious job.

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Re:“So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they... by diminoten on Sunday March 22, 2015 @01:12PM (#9247487)

Are you implying that there is no place for malicious jobs in society?

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Re:“So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they... by TeMPOraL on Sunday March 22, 2015 @01:19PM (#9247512)

I am. Before someone brings up the military - you can say that armed forces are built on malice, but the harm is at least directed towards other societies. Telemarketing is basically hurting members of your own.

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Re:“So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they... by diminoten on Sunday March 22, 2015 @03:15PM (#9247869)

Before we start, what do you define as a telemarketer?

And how do you define usefulness for humanity?

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