[LINK] Fwd: MR30/2010: Re-register now to avoid telemarketing calls [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[David Lochrin]

On Thursday 11 March 2010 19:31, Roger Clarke wrote:
> A lot of the population is that way, and always will be.  You're 
> getting taken in by the upbeat, techno-hip environment you 
> operate it.  (Sorry the adjectives are so 80s and 90s).

The phrase "upbeat, techno-hip environment" crystallises the idea well.  We could say the same about the upbeat, econo-hip environment of those who precipitated the GFC.

> Or I could try it within that segment's own terms:  in an era when 
> people are increasingly time-poor, they want to interact with the 
> people they want to interact with, not the cretins who populate the 
> direct marketing world.

Those cretins are, in the end, simply responding to demand.  Unfortunately we seem to have come to a point where simple concern on the part of both the telemarketers and their business clients for the comfort & autonomy of other human beings is so devalued.

Non-cooperation is my solution.

David