Arnold E, this attitude is all too rare (and very honourable).
Before aviation, I worked in the entertainment industry where there are many "acting" academies and "modelling" agencies that are all too keen to scam money from eager, naive wannabes by promising them skills and employment that they can never attain.
The same scurrilous attitude seems to have infected aviation, where some schools foster false hope of employment among young and naive hopefuls.
Unfortunately, in a free market economy, caveat emptor (let the buyer beware) is the overriding philosophy.
Flying (and acting, and modelling) is a dream job for many young people, and the naive among them will always be preyed upon by sharks. Equally, as 'dream' jobs, the market price for employees will always be less than that for people willing to deal with sewerage, accounts, computers et al.
There are people who succeed in entertainment (Logie night, after all
) and people who succeed in aviation, but rarely, if ever, was renumeration their prime motive.