Sarcasm aside...while I agree pilots are often worth more than they are paid its not like the pros/cons of the airline seniority system (including no national seniority list) and low regional airline compensation have been secrets over the last decade.

I don't see how you can blame ALPA for your own expectations for career & salary progression going unrealized, especially when the "rules" were widely available to you the day you accepted employment.

On that, we can both agree. I too love to fly but I work to pay my financial obligations, and whenever I can no longer do that it will be time for me to find another career...be it in sales, digging ditches, or whatever.

Kudos to you for having your priorities in line (and for not allowing this God-forsaken industry to change them).