Nope, I'm honestly trying to claim that the job has gotten worse and worse for 20+ years, and they aren't hiring in any kind of numbers to give any significant chance of making "paying dues" pay off. No one wants anything for free or feels that they "deserve" it, but if you have 20,000 people and 100 jobs (extreme example), it's not because they don't want to "pay their dues". It's that they aren't stupid.