It's the NEW pilots who accept this deal who are to blame.
H777, that's unfair. What are people to do? Walk away from a career they love and the chance to fly a jet just because it is deemed to be too-underpaid by other people in the industry?
The real people to blame are the employers who are using our love of flying to their own ends by lowering conditions (in some cases to prop up their bureaucracies). The politics of envy plays a big part too. And John Howard's Workchoices doesn't make things any easier.