You invent a product. You hire people to make the product. You hire a company to sell the product.
The company hires people to sell the product.
People buy the product.
Money is made to create a new product.
Seems pretty "useful," to me.
Think of the thousands, or millions of families, who, without this cycle of creation/invention/buying/selling/buying, etc, would be without food, without a home...
Produce pushes us forward. It drives us. It keeps us going. It clothes us. It feeds us.
The telemarketer is just one link in a very long chain of events, with no real start, or end... a chain of events that is so important to our every-day lives, that it's nigh impossible to fathom, but is certainly no more useless than any other endeavour that you may set yourself upon.