On blastoff's cue...
Really? You think that a person who spent 4 years studying under water basket weaving will be a better pilot? I won't lie the life skills I learned in college will be with me forever, but you can get other life skills working a full time job for 4 years. You still learn the basics - time management, responsibility, hierarchies, and interpersonal skills.
So the freight dawg who after high school, busted tables at 5.15/hour to save up for his commercial, finally landed that back side of the clock gig and now 10 years later, has about 5,000 hours and 4,000 ME PIC wouldn't be qualified for the job?
I know the new law would require ATP mins, but what would having a BS really solve? Why not require a BS for the regionals and a Master's for majors?
To actually tie back to the OP, I have seen very little sense of entitlement in the aviation industry. What I've seen the MOST is the "because I had to walk uphill both ways in the snow to school, so should you!" Maybe I should make a post about that...