If the airlines keep lowering the minimums, where is the motivation for new pilots to become instructors and freight pilots to get the kind of experience that should be required to be in the care of peoples' lives. If the minimums were 1500 or 2000 I bet there would the cfi's and freight dogs would be a lot more motivated to hurry up and get what is necessary to be an airline pilot instead of trying to find ways around these experience building positions (again atp), why would they learn more if they could go at 500 hours?