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> A new survey of 2,000 Gen Zers and millennials by the self-improvement app RiseGuide

...so a sample of a subset of workers who are all looking for self-help? The survey might be self-selecting for people with anxiety disorders, methinks.

article ignores the reality that the vast majority of calls anyone receives nowadays are scams of one form or another

they aren’t the simple telemarketer scams of yesterday; many are sophisticated attacks with high-consequence outcomes that require considerable effort to navigate, if engaged.

Disengagement is currently an important survival tool.

"Robbers are mad that people started locking their doors"

there's no way to tell if a phone call is a real opportunity at this point, and even when people can tell, the scam calls far exceed the genuine ones

"and it might cost them" lmao fuck right off Business Insider.