It's no different than someone paying for a piece of plastic that says CFI on it so that they can work for crappy wages being a CFI building time. If someone wants to pay for a Type that will enable them to get a job somewhere then more power to them. No different than paying for a MBA to advance yourself or a 737 Type to get a job at SW. If you have the money to buy a type and that is what gets you the job then who is anyone to say that is a bad idea. Or you could be someone that has the GI bill or WIA money that will get you the type for free. My guess is that no one with a brain would tell someone flying for SW that they are an idiot for buying their own type.
Everyone has their own set of circumstances so to sit behind your computer screen and judge them is pretty sad.