Why should anyone care?

It's a free country. The government isn't ordering you to fly a 70 seat jet for less than what Unemployment Insurance pays. It's your choice to accept a job for those wages, and it's your choice to stick around.

Love to fly too much to give it up? Well, no different than being a crack addict... why should a crack dealer give you a discount (airline management pay you more) when you're willing to pay the top dollar for a fix (willing to accept and continue working for poverty wages)?