I can't help but wonder if you have been in the business long enough to have experienced the dramatic changes in our compensation rates over the last quarter century. Even if what you say is fundamentally true, there is no doubt that the market forces which ultimately determine our compensation rates have deteriorated to say the least. In the mid seventies I was earning $100/hour as a contract pilot. Today, 25 years later the hourly contract rate for the same type of flying (bush work) remains roughly the same. Using the CPI inflation calculator, $100 in 1975 bought as much as $309 would in 1999. Or, if you prefer, today a contract bush pilot is earning 30% of what he would have earned in 1975 for the same type of work. Such a decline in inflation adjusted pay is surely catastrophic in any one's book. Legitimate reason for at least some discontent, woudn't you say?