I've been a telemarketer
both profit and non-profit. It was a high school job - evenings in the boiler room with a pre-typed script. You were paid commission of money collected plus hourly rate. I didn't see anybody depending on this for their livlihood except for the managers and company owners. I did see a fair amount of fraud wrt misrepresentation - not actual fraud - but misleading pitches that implied this was going for an AIDS education program - the company pocketed the bulk of the money and used a pittance to print up a few lame fliers and put them in area coffee shops.
I'm not too worried about the loss of jobs in that industry.
