Well said, Camelman,
This has been a regularly occuring theme on numerous threads.
The local pilots get their knickers in a twist as to "WHY, OH WHY do those bloody expats who come here to take our jobs and wives/girlfriends then drink our beer get paid SO MUCH?? We want to get the same money they do, for the same 6/6, 4/4, 8/4 etc etc roster they work!!"
No one ever sits down and calculates that these expats on that roster with the hours they rack up will actually fly up to their limit for the year and in some cases over the limit, nor do they give a moment to consider that those same expats give up literally HALF their lives with their loved ones to come and do the jobs that a lot of the smaller, often dodgy operators COULD NEVER DO on their own, without the same expats they moan so much about.