I came across a recent thread on the flying subreddit where the OP is talking about how he landed his first gig flying in the right seat of a 737 for a European airline. One of the comments (that's heavily downvoted) questions the safety of an airline that hires a first officer with low time. However, the replies to that comment are mostly in disagreement with the 1500hr and how it really doesn't do anything for airline safety, mostly citing reasons of bureaucracy for not being able to change the 1500hr rule or congress trying to maintain the illusion of fixing an issue. What's everyone's thoughts on this?

Reddit thread in question:

https://old.reddit.com/r/flying/comm...st_flying_job/