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I thought this comment was a very clever joke, then I clicked the link and realised it’s an actual summary of the article.

Thanks for saving me seven minutes.

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It's a summary of the title, but not of the article.

The article was pretty much empty: someone trying to be edgy and making their word count. I didn’t enjoy reading the article and wish that for once I read the comments before the link.

I enjoyed the article very very much but I accidentally completed a BFA in creative writing in my youth so my taste in writing might be a bit off.

Knowing nothing about creative writing, I too enjoyed the article very much.

What more substance is there?

an intimate discussion of his life and how it was forever changed by being a telemarketer? It was actually a very interesting and well written read - an autobiography disguised as a sales advice article.

It's the most interesting article I've read in quite a long time.

Take the time to read it.

Same here. But I can’t oversee the irony. I was sold.

It's actually quite well written

The message seems to be: sales is a soul-sucking job, a demoralizing exercise on psychopathic exploitation in which making people feel something (be it good or not) is the way into their wallets.

The message is also that consumerism is driven by demand creation - and that demand creation takes its toll on both the demander and the buyer.

The greatest minds of our generation are hard at work creating algorithms to give kids eating disorders, making the next iPhone 3mm thinner, and figuring out how to make a TV dinner that contains no actual food.

Our modern world is so incredible. I wish we could do some good things.

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