Please do not let your personal feelings about paying for type ratings stray into ill-considered posts about companies who quite legally and ethically offer such products to those who want them (and remember that their customers aren't only 200-hour wannabes!).
If you have intelligent argument which informs the debate and carries it forward, please feel free to contribute. If all you want to do is rant your oft-expressed prejudices, please refrain until you've cooled down, can argue coherently and can accept that other, equally intelligent, individuals can and do hold opposing points of view.
CH4, I admire your restraint!
Scroggs