I worked at a company that helped people find the best loans for their situation.
Basically a price comparison site. No sponsored content or anything.
One day I was asked about setting up a payday loans option for the site and just said no.
I’d listened to some podcast about just how predatory the industry was, and even though our national regulations meant it couldn’t get as bad as some places, it was still unacceptably predatory.
I showed the manager stats for repayment, interest and average income of a customer and said if he went forward with this I would not be participating.
And if he was going to ask me to participate regardless, I would hand him my notice on the spot.
They never did anything with payday loans after that. I think most people were pretty happy about it.
Bezos was talking about computer rental being the future of the market.
Presumably with him reaping the rewards.