LAX,
Nobody has said anything about "owing any of us a living". We all expect to earn a decent salary for trading our skills. It seems your response to not being rewarded well is to walk out, as if this is some sort of more honourable approach. Most of the rest of us believe that if we can negotiate more out of our current employers then its probably a better way to go. As a matter of interest how many jobs have you walked out on then?
It's all very well coming out with this sort of statement but most people (like a lot of the crew have done in Flybe) join a company intending to make a career. Take easyjet and ryanair, where the company are mercilessly trying to screw every last benefit out of the crews. Do they just leave and go somewhere else or do they stay and try to negotiate with the company to try and make things better?