Originally Posted by
mpet
I was writing up something big but ^^ nailed it. We're not operating under free-market capitalism... this industry is regulated in a very pro-business anti-labor way. Yes, part of it is the fault of SOME pilots... but there should be mechanisms in order to save the majority of pilots from a few idiots in the herd.
Corporate America is anti labor. You think pilots are the only ones getting screwed over? Take a look at the income growth in this country over the past few decades, then take a look at the income growth of CEO's over the past few decades. What is happening here is pure greed and corruption. Capitalism is great, except when greed takes over and gets deeply rooted into the system. We don't have a chance, not only because of stupid pilots voting to give the CEO a bigger bonus, but because the system is set up to drain the working class from the top and the bottom.
Fun fact: By 2016, 51% of the worlds wealth will be controlled by the 1%.