it's not being conformist, it's just reality.
I've been flying for 26 years most of them in Latin America so I know a thing or two about costs of living there, I also realize that besides all of those "rose colored glasses" reasons you posted, the simple fact is that aircraft financing, insurance, fuel, maintenance costs are the same wether you will operate in Lima or Mogadishu, Lan doesn't charge their passengers half of what AA does, do they? I will bet that in some routes they are even more expensive than AA. They pay those salaries because people accept them, but the share holders love for you to think that way