The day we start to think of ourselves as "better" than the working man is the day that we begin the wholescale destruction of the profession. It is that attitude that makes pilots feel as though hanging on to that job is the most important thing in life -- nomatter what cuts in pay and benefit may occur.

You are a blue-collar button pusher manufacturing a widget for Spacely Sprockets. Your widget is called a passenger-seat-mile. Punch your time-clock and be happy.