I think you are either on the outside looking in, or you are on or near the bottom and are salivating for a job stealing shortcut to the top. You pretend to be this pro labor crusader, but you want to do away with unions and seniority and turn the profession into a backstabbing free for all of individual contractors.
Then you have the audacity to call others management shills? And your big plan is to do nothing and hope that there isn't enough flight training infrastructure which will magically get us all huge raises. Meanwhile the system will collapse and we will get cabotage and MPL ratings and ATP reductions, which apparently you think is superior to actually having a system that trains entry level 1500 hour pilots.
No one is talking about flooding the streets with billions of new ATP's. But our current system isn't getting it done, due in large part to "the lost decade" that saw the foundation crumble beneath it. Airlines are lobbying and preparing to invest in flight training anyway. That is going to happen. If we sit on the sidelines and act smug pretending we will be the champions in a never ending bidding war, we will be doing the heavy lifting of the Gulf airlines and others for them. Which I suspect you like.
They are paving the way for MPL and reduced minimums, when what we need is experience. Your fantasy of it costing a quarter million dollars to learn to fly (and then graduating with lower mins and an MPL) will not translate into higher pay for us. It will create a system ripe with government training subsidies, indentured servitude contracts and training bonds and a new generation of low time wonders. Oh and hopefully no seniority lists. Right.
Your crusade is clear.
I would enjoy the discussion were it not for your lame attempts to "out" me as management or whatever just because I disagree with your vision on flight training in the civilian sector. If anyone is a management shill its you.