Quote: "She is a low houred pilot who payed for her own type-rating......" and is therein lies part of the problem perhaps. Reap and ye shall sow and all that!
If people stopped paying for jobs just to get to fly a shiny (or not so shiny) jet, maybe it would help stop the not so gradual erosion of our profession. Unfortunately, where Ruinair tread, others follow and we seem to be on a steady decline to who knows where.
There is strength in numbers and until people get together and say 'enough is enough' the beancounters and pencil necks will continue to run rings around us.