When I was younger I never had a solicited call on my landline. Simply put any place that would have called to try and sell me something would have been long di

When I was younger I never had a solicited call on my landline. Simply put any place that would have called to try and sell me something would have been long distance and it wasn't worth the cost. Back then I always answered the phone because it was going to be something important. Then the cost of long distance started to drop to zero and the commercial calls started coming in. After it was zero, the outright illegal scams showed up. Now, probably one out of every fifty calls to me is an actual legitimate call. My phone goes to automatic voicemail if you're not already in my contacts. Were talking about both quantitative changes and qualitative changes. Things like this can have large impacts on society.