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Aren't there better ways to help people?
"Mathieu made a lot of money last year," said Lerner, "and he wanted to start applying it to some type of social purpose. Mike is a very funny guy -- he has progressive values, but also a very dark, competitive streak. We thought it would be twisted to really use free market rhetoric against payday loans, as a way of demonstrating how as a society, converting short-term financial pain into long--term financial pains isn't good for our citizens."
So, making a satirical web site is serving a social purpose? That seems tenuous, at best. The payday loan industry won't care and the poor folks who rely on the predatory lenders won't see it. Seems like he could be using his Microsoft windfall on something more tangible.