Why don't you pay to fly people try and think about it like this.
It's your own future terms and conditions you are eroding just as much as anyone else's. Maybe if you guys did go out and do the hard yards, such as a couple of years instructing/taxi flights or whatever, when a job on a nice shiny jet comes around you might find the type rating is paid for and better still you get paid a proper wage from day one.
Everyone would then be better off including yourselves.
