High on the hate list are answering machines. You try to dial a corporation and get an answering machine that asks you to select from a list. Once you hear all the questions and press a number, you get another list and make another selection. This goes on for about five minutes until you press zero a bunch of times. Then the machine either rudely hangs up on you or, if you are ‘lucky’, you get a human that tells you that you dialed the national office and that you need the regional office. Once you get the regional office, you get on a waiting list before another list of menus is given you. Then, after shouting a bunch of obscenities at the stupid machine, you finally get a human that tells you to call someone else or call back another day.
In the 50s, 60s, and 70s, your call would be quickly answered with a friendly, intelligent, patient and polite person that would quickly tell you the exact information you needed. They would actually diminish your stress level and increase your knowledge and understanding. Now those people are unemployed having been replaced by the idiot – savant machine that works for nothing and becomes obsolete in a few years.
There are hundreds of similar items on the hate list as this society approaches a perfect dystopia.