Good point, but in these scenarios you are free to just hang up. Most people I think are afraid of offending someone but if they are being assholes (salesman/scammers) you have no obligation to be nice or continue the conversation. I find it empowering, even cathartic to say something like, “Oh, you’re one of those pieces of shit scammers I’ve heard about. Good day, piece of shit” or simply, “I don’t have time for your bs” and hang up.

Zelda OoT, Majora’s mask, BotW, TotK

What does "play mean in this instance?

That’s what words are for… If you pick up, and say “hello,” they will say why they are calling. God damn people will do everything in their power to NOT communicate with eachother these days

Universal basic income could help us achieve this. There are people working right now to make this a reality in America

I did a podcas (I know 🙄), where we talked about how much better our civilization would run if we modeled it after a cell or organism. Like for example, only about 10% of the total amount of ATP generated by the mitochondria goes to the nucleus, so maybe the people in charge in America should only get about 10% of the total distributed wealth/resources