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by 542458 3782 days ago
Well, telemarketing isn't useless. It is irritating, but it does provide real value to many companies in the form of customer acquisition (also, it takes a very small number of people to do a LOT of calls, so there probably aren't very many of these). "Paper pushing admin" isn't necessarily useless either - some things are just human-intensive to document or coordinate.

In either case, I don't see anything special about these jobs that would make them the first to disappear in the face of UBI.