I also disagree that other industries don't pay for training for newbies. The individual would be expected to have the basic qualifications (a trade, a degree, a license), but specific qualifications (experience in a particular field, a TR) would normally be given 'on the job'
absolute tosh. If you all think you're hard done by because you have to pay for your own training, then take your head out of the sand and go and have a real look around.
Wanna be a lawyer - fine - go get a degree - theres 20 - 25 grand right there. You think you will get a job with this basic qualification? Balls. Try law school for a year or two - another 5 - 10 grand. Will you get a job. Maybe - no guarantees , its all speculative at this stage - sound familiar?
If you get a job (not all do), you will spend 2 years as a trainee solicitor on a very very low wage (12 odd grand a year), or if you want to be a barister you won't get paid at all for the first 2 years, only for the cases you actaully get.
Any of that sound familiar - hey guess what its just like becoming a pilot.
Wanna be a doctor, acountant, architect? none of them are going to be much different.
Nobody is going to hand this to you on a plate. The market has changed, paying for ratings one way or another is a fact of life, its the way the market is. If you want to be a part of it fine, if not then also fine, but moaning about it on here isn't going to change anything.