to give a !!!! that they are potentially ruining peoples lives.
Well, like junk food isn't able to ruin someone's life by CHD, obesity, lower life expectancy, emotional issues of persons being too fat to pull a bird or getting laid, indirect discrimination etc.
I pretty liked gadude's comparison. I'm just heli pilot in the making (over few years, sadly), but have keen interest and follow planks training options (and generally scour PPRuNe all around).
I'm no fan of integrated 80k cost schools. If there was something reasonable in the rotary world with less draconian feel to it, maybe.
I can feel for the youngsters craving for airline career/flying for living/having that Captain status/whatever does their kicks, seeing years of saving as waste of time (AND LOSING OUT ON SO MANY 100Ks OF SALARY THEY WON'T EARN BECAUSE OF WORKING IN CRAP JOBS - WHAT A LAUGH). I feel like that every day I hear the police Eurocopter above the city. I'm 1/4 or 1/5 there in my training hours wise, but 3-5 years until actually getting FI/CFI rating and the elusive first instructing job.
Different training, market, employment opportunities etc. You know..
Take it easy guys, get PPL, have fun experience building, do the CPL module etc and so on. That's what I'd do if my wish was to fly for fun and living later on in the fixed wing world. I may as well in the future.