WCF: Nicely -- and bravely -- put. Takes some b*lls to utter the heresy that maybe not all pilots are demigods in intelligence and achievement, deserving of a stratospheric salary.
Like you, on a lower level, I am a PPL and I love my flying. I also (tace your instructing) have no desire to do it professionally. I have had the opportunity and declined.
As cabin crew, one of the things I find hardest is being assumed to be a cretin, and treated accordingly, by people whose intellect I find it hard to respect. Yes, some pilots are little short of geniuses (I work long-haul; three cheers for the old, disappearing Renaissance Men!), but that is aside from their jobs. Others are complete fools. I should know, I've been stuck in countless downroute bars with jet jockeys who can't string a sentence together, with or without beer, and struggle with the most basic concepts.
Let's face it, commercial flying is a skilled job, but it's not brain surgery. Anyone with a certain aptitude can do it. If that outrages you, dear reader, maybe you're in flying for the wrong reasons.
A diversion, and nothing much to do with cabin crew pay, or the knocking thereof. But the previous thread turned into a comparison, and the truth is that the comparison does lurk constantly, under the surface. I would never expect to be paid as much as an F/O. Pure economics dictate that. But I am neither cretin, himbo nor phillistine and am heartily tired of the assumption to the contrary. Even when it comes to pay. (See Flaps40's articulate posting on the matter in the earlier thread) Thankyou and, for now, Goodnight.