TBH I think we need to be wary of stereotyping .. "comfortable seniors", thinking
all new joiners are paying back 100K loans, and that every skipper on the jumbo is going to be rolling in it/having a comfortable time on CRS...
Anyhow back to the lifeboats, women and children first and voluntarily leaving, taking pay cuts, taking part time in order to help...
I think the problem some are perceiving now is if you offer up your seat on the lifeboat it now appears there's no guarantee that the company will actually fill that seat with somebody " more deserving" ..and I suspect that is starting grip people who have perhaps already volunteered to step back, and will also perhaps also make it more difficult to get volunteers to give up their seats in the future..
I think I'll leave there since as you can tell I've exhausted my knowledge of boaty things...