My point is that non of us have truly earned the right to be where we are in the pilot totem. We all got to where we are based upon a multitude of factors (market forces, timing, bad luck/good luck, knowing the right people, being a slave to the man, rule changes etc.) Just because a curmudgeon of a captain made it one way, doesn't make it the only or right way of making it up the ranks. To me, it seems the group of people who keep throwing the entitlement card into the discussion are the ones who are least in touch with today's reality that the younger pilot cadre face.