Just for the record, Dick Smith has left out the really important stuff, the stuff that tells you his real position.
His real position is not that everyone get out of aviation! Granted, you wouldn't think so by what you've just read and that's because Dick Smith continues to omit his condition that you should only leave aviation if you're a struggling business in aviation.
For a long time it seemed a mass exodus from aviation was his view. Its not now, its only for the strugglers.
But even for the strugglers Dick Smith, how can they get out? Should they just walk away for no money? If so, does this not mean they do lose even more? Doesn't your advice now mean someone else must get in? Doesn't that then mean that person must now get out? And so on and so on.
Is it not correct to say your advice to the strugglers is in fact flawed and that you continually fail to disclose your true and full position on an industry wide basis and in so doing cause enormous harm and upset to the rest of the industry? Are you simply attempting to remain relevant, using what others have described here as headline grabbing, at the expense of industry participants working hard to gain say new members or additional business revenue?
Will you from here on commit to include this essential component within your advice, that being, your view is not industry wide but only applies to struggling aviation businesses?