Well, you can easily remove the period and flip that statement on its head: The Union gets the Management that IT deserves. I can almost hear Marx's giddiness from here as the quintessence of his ideology--dialectical materialism--plays out over and over again, most notably perhaps right here in our own back yard.

Labor movements are popular because they enable workers to secure higher wages for their labor than a free market would allow. However, as we all know from economics, there is no such thing as a free lunch--this is no different. The largess enjoyed by Legacy airline pilots comes directly from the pockets of "lower" tiered pilots, the traveling public, and, of course, the 'taxpayer'. There is no way around this.

So yes, who on earth would not want to be paid more than they are worth? That's the true danger of these policies at scale. We can survive them when the exist in isolated pockets within a massive ecosystem of productivity, but at scale they WILL ultimately destroy the economy. After all, who would turn down "free" money? No one, and obviously not me. So yes, am I a hypocrite in my own camp? Absolutely. But at the very least I won't aim to hide behind false interpretations of this ideology. And yes, I totally, agree, without the Union, this job would not provide nearly what it does now. But then, if that were the case, a lot fewer people would be interested in trying to become pilots in the first place. So, while in this instance, as a fellow pilot and ALPA member, I go along to get along for the time being, I am under no illusions about the reality of what is happening here.