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The fact that those jobs existed means they were being productive and getting paid for it.
Their "productivity" came at the cost of wasting time for a lot of people who didn't want to buy anything, nor be called by them in the first place. In economics, this is what is called an externality - the telemarketer's activity consumes time and attention that comes at no cost to him. So the DNC was instituted and random people's time was no longer a free resource to be consumed. Lo and behold, people signed up by the hundreds of thousands - and once their time was no longer free to mooch, the business model failed.
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Since those jobs were legal, then it wasn't a good thing.
Has commerce stopped? Are people languishing for lack of knowledge on where to get overpriced aluminum siding and semi-scammy life insurance?
Not as far as I can tell. A major nuisance has been diminished considerably. If your service was one that the buying public wanted, they wouldn't sign up for the DNC. Yet, they did.
If they're violating DNC, you can sue for $11,000 per call.
I even looked into getting a 900 number for my home phone, so that people would have to pay to call me. Alas, at over $1000 a month, it just would not be profitable.
Their "productivity" came at the cost of wasting time for a lot of people who didn't want to buy anything, nor be called by them in the first place. In economics, this is what is called an externality - the telemarketer's activity consumes time and attention that comes at no cost to him. So the DNC was instituted and random people's time was no longer a free resource to be consumed. Lo and behold, people signed up by the hundreds of thousands - and once their time was no longer free to mooch, the business model failed.
Has commerce stopped? Are people languishing for lack of knowledge on where to get overpriced aluminum siding and semi-scammy life insurance?
Not as far as I can tell. A major nuisance has been diminished considerably. If your service was one that the buying public wanted, they wouldn't sign up for the DNC. Yet, they did.
As far as "wasting time" goes, that's not for you to determine. That would be for prospects, telemarketers and their workplaces to determine. You're just offering your opinion.
Prospects are far more knowledgeable than you give them credit for. If they weren't, the telemarketing industry would have collapsed much sooner. It's the assumption that the seller needs to control the conversation that brought around DNC.
What brought it? Complaints to the FCC for starters. People generally don't like being sold things especially without seeing it or touching it and on random times of the day.
I had shouting matches with telemarketers because frankly they kept calling. "Well you have to buy something to make this stop" customers would then change numbers and that becomes costly to the phone companies and businesses.
I check caller id. I don't see a reason to block a caller id because frankly if I can't call you back then what exactly is the point?
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