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One of the first jobs I had was in a small call centre (doing cold calls). I had to read a script asking random people questions about their financial situation
by jondubois 9y ago
One of the first jobs I had was in a small call centre (doing cold calls). I had to read a script asking random people questions about their financial situation. I think it might have been a scam but I'm still not sure to this day; it just sounded like a standard insurance questionnaire but I don't know what they did with the answers that were collected. I got fired after 2 weeks because my conversion rates were not good enough.
I think that these kinds of jobs are morally acceptable. You can't expect the poor to behave ethically while the rich are screwing them over 24/7. You can't have a fair society without some degree of chaos and allowing people to take matters into their own hands.
If we accept capitalism, then we must accept all the nasty things that come with it.
Many people pretend that capitalism is just a matter of rewarding intelligence over stupidity and hard work over laziness, but it's just as much about rewarding selfishness over selflessness, deception over honesty, short-term thinking over long-term thinking, etc...
- ryandrake 9y agoThe rich are screwing over the poor, therefore it's morally acceptable to scam poor and middle class grandmothers out of their pensions? I guarantee it's not the wealthy elite that are being targeted by these scams.
- jondubois 9y agoThey're wealthy compared to the perpetrators of the crime. If the 'victims' understood the value of their money, then they would never give it to anyone over the phone even if threatened with jail. If someone wants to take my money, they'd probably have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands.