Whats always intrigued me about the type rating/pay to fly argument is how people try to draw a line in the sand and say it is so wrong. Yet it is industry accepted that you can drop paras or gliders for free or darn as well near enough to it. You can earn £8 an hour instructing PPLers when the school is charging £140/hr for a clapped out C152 or tow banners for not much more. There are even twin "jobs" where you get no pay doing traffic reports etc.
I am waiting to be enlightened as to the startling difference between these and the aforementioned. It seems to me a case of the have nots being none to pleased that others are jumping ahead of them on the gravy train and not going through the same school of hard knocks that they did. Well I am afraid that is life and there will always be someone with minimum hours who is in the right place at the right time that will get a job ahead of you or who doesn't see a need to live in a caravan in North Wales for a year losing the will to live.