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I assume the telemarketer bit is a joke due to the placement below insects and, you know, murderers and rapists. I don't get why poor telemarketers have become such a punchline. They're just doing their jobs and happen to be creating trivial conveniences for the rest of us.
Oh, it's certainly a joke. But if you compare the subjective disutility generated per incident and the expected number of incidents over a career, telemarketers don't come out looking too good. Probably not murderer- or rapist-level bad, but I wouldn't be surprised if it came out to a mean total disutility in the same order of magnitude as your average mugger.