B-767:
While I appreciate your concern for pay-to-fly schemes, come on! You are blowing this way out of proportions. 100.000 €? WTF? Granted, if you include an expensive integrated ATPL, cost of living, jet rating and pay-to-fly line sectors, you might look at that figure but far from all have laid out those sums!
I don't know how it was back in the "old" days -- i assume no one ever paid a single penny for their flight training? They were all military? Or is really the only difference that SSTRs weren't the norm?
Here's what I like about flying:
Seeing the sunrise over Finnmark at around 70N 25E at 0130 local time over a beautiful overcast layer
Helping out the people that need our service as I fly medical transport/EMS and sometimes we make a life/death difference.
Meeting amazing individuals that are my colleagues
Enjoying close to 3 weeks off a month (7-7-7-14 roster) with friends
Flying in to 800m fields in the fjords with mountains on every side in the middle of the night in a snow storm, and doing so in a professional environment.
etc
Edit: deleted last rant.