Are there any pilots involved who totally rely on this income for their living, who think these are fair market rates, who don't have rich early pensions or massive second incomes?
If early employment pensions were taxed at a more punitive rate, or music piracy was simply given a shrug, would you be quite so blase about ridiculing the incomes of full time career pilots? Of course you wouldn't, and when it mattered, of course you didn't. You ride these forums on your high horse of arrogance edged with a hint of nastiness, but underlying it all you remain a hypocrite in the true definition of the word.
Market forces are one thing, but the distortions to these markets by allowing boy scouts on "bob-a-job" salaries to occupy the right hand seat in preference to experienced full ATPL holders, coupled with "retired" final salary pension drawers, being given a free 10 year working bonus, do not properly reflect the reality of "market forces." In many respects this is a career that has been turned into a theme park ride for the wealthy. That is a perversion of market forces. That a growing number of companies are exploiting the perversion may be understandable, but the lazy regulators who are ultimately responsible for this fiasco, will eventually be forced to mend their ways. However you shouldn't worry, you will still be largely unaffected.