"As you trumpet your decades of superior experience, don't forget the simple fact: Flying today is not that difficult, and there are heaps of applicants out there who will have a safe career doing it."

If it's that easy why are the companies talking about the difficulty they're having with the new candidates?

If it's that easy why are perfectly good airplanes being bounced of hard objects?

I think technology, engineering, and training has gone a long way to help the safety numbers but there's still a lot of dumb, and/or dangerous stuff, that happens in the business. If it was simple everyone would be doing it.