In case it could ever bite me in the ass in the future, I should state that I am only one degree removed from some of these people (payday industry administration), but want nothing to do with them.
A small group from my high school (class of '85) made a good profit from a contract with the Atlanta Olympic games, and turned around and used that to get heavily involved in forming payday lending companies. I mean, Kansas is home to so many bad elements, the Kochs, Rent-A-Center, various criminals in the Trump administration, etc.
It’s so weird to know that so many of my classmates are complicit in shit like this (payday lending, Kochs, political rat-fucking), and I wonder how I avoided drinking the Kool-Aid.