I still would love one of these "its the PFTers that bring down the industry" and advocate not taking an offered F/O position to really come up with a better argument. You talk of solidarity and turning down a job to "benefit the industry as a whole". So Mr. 34 year old who is now entering the airline industry with 2 kids, a wife, a mortgage and cart payments (and beleive me there are a ton of them in PFT programs because yes, YOU are not the only one who had a dream of flying) is supposed to look an airline HR person in the eye, and in the interest of appeasing some bitter crumudgeons who can't see past their own anger and bitterness to focus on the REAL problem (management), turn down the job they've always wanted because it doesn't pay like a lawyer and see his family suffer because of it.
You say "get out and do something else"....well why don't you tell a West Virginia coal miner who works in an environment that most people would say "get out, do something else!" that and see the reaction. he doesn't because he knows nothing else, wouldn't be happy doing something else and his small protest if he did leave would be largely overshadowed by the next guy willing to step in and he KNOWS this.
STOP blaming the pilots and start getting on the case of the suits who are REALLy the ones driving this industry into the toilet. Oh but I guess the easiest target and the ones who won't put up too much of an argument because they are too scared are the new pilots so lets pick on them because picking a fight with the bigwigs might prove too much of a real fight and we just don't REALLy want to stand out as the trailblazer.