What is the current definition of good?

What are the good old days if they were not great pay, status and tons of time off? A few have mentioned that the good old days will come back or the the pendulum swings both ways but if it doesnt go back to the way it was in 1978 then they will never really come back.

Nothing lasts forever and every dog has his day. The pilot profession is on the glide never to return to the peak of the 1970's. I think it will plateau for a few years then keep sliding. There seems no other place for it to go.

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