Here is another perspective. I'm paying for my training with my own hard earned money so I'm very well aware of the cost to fly an aircraft. My background is self employed and running my own business and I come from a fairly big family without much money. So I'm well aware of the cost to run a business and come out with a profit.
I'm going to do my best to give the operator as well as the customer the most for there money. I have worked with people who spent there lives working for the government or large companys or whatever who don't have a clue about where the money is coming from or going and they drive me nuts with wasted time and materials.
I think there is a lot more to the job than just the flying. the indivdual's attitude and the way they do things (anything) is what matters.