WangEye, if you're not a pilot, with all due respect you're arguing from a point of ignorance, no matter how noble your motivations.
and is one of the group that have allowed our profession to slide so much.
You reveal your colours, Whippersnapper. Slide? You'd like to go back to the days of bloated, loss making leviathans with one sector days followed by a night in a five star? Come on now.
AOC holders submit a flight and duty time limitations schedule as Chapter 7 of their OPS Manual. All are reviewed and then either approved or not by their respective regulatory authorities who's responsibility it is to ensure "safety above all else", loaded1. Sounds to me like you're in the wrong profession, and yes once again,
if you don't like the terms and conditions of your employment, THEN RESIGN and let others less inclined toward bitching have a go. 