&gt;It&#x27;s legal, there&#x27;s a market for it, and I need to eat.<p>Releasing steam against the telemarketer is legal, there&#x27;s a reason for it, and it relieves the immediate tension build up.<p>&gt;They won&#x27;t even remember you at the end of the day.<p>Depends upon spontaneous creativity.  I don&#x27;t have much, so they probably want.  But in some ways, even if you don&#x27;t directly recall the experience, it can still have an impact.  If I had not eaten every meal I don&#x27;t remember anything about, I would be dead right now.<p>&gt;If it makes you feel better about yourself to shit on your economic inferiors,<p>You make it sound like it is because they are economically inferiors is the reason people react negatively and in doing so ignore all the actual reasons people don&#x27;t like telemarketers.<p>&gt;So you&#x27;re really just wasting your own time.<p>The telemarketer already did that for me.