Originally Posted by
87iroc&amullet
All good points, but I believe that battle will be far longer than anyone presently can imagine. With barriers to entry reduced to "sign here," the stampede of 20-year-old kids who would fly for free just to impress their buddies, and proletariat laborers who would naturally rather fly a jet for minimum wage than dig a ditch for minimum wage, has shallowed and widened the talent pool, resulting in such a glut of low-quality (comparitive to those of yesteryear) applicants that any attempt to rectify the payscales in today's environment would be futile.
Your over-simplified attitude of the 'proletariat laborer' is quite naive. We can't all come from your opulent 'bourgeoisie' status ...some of us had to work for a living at some point. I didn't realize that if you dug ditches before landing your airline job you were 'shallowing the talent pool'.....bad form