Lert, not at all. My point was that this boy in years gone by would probably have been attracted to the job like his father was. But as others have pointed out, the prohibitive start-up costs of the job, low start-up salary compared to the one he is about to receive and the downside of the pilots lifestyle, means that he and others like him no longer have piloting on their career radars.
As for attracting the best and brightest, piloting used to attract its fair share of them. Not any more. Your little jibe at me simply means you have no grasp of semantics.