Blaming inexperienced people for this mess is ludicrous. The people who should have stood up and been counted are the experienced and more valuable employees.
If chief pilots, captains, BALPA CC's etc. had stood up to management when this sort of thing started, then we might not have the problems we do now.
People with no experience have no power to change what they are offered, because to put it simply, there are other people out there who will undercut them.
That's the way of the world and to blame inexperienced pilots for it, is absolutely wrong.
We all look out for ourselves first. That's human nature, someone with 200hrs and a frozen ATPL isn't thinking about the good of the pilot community, they have the pressure of enormous debt or simple expectation and want to continue their dream, so haven't got the luxury of getting all holier than thou and turning down jobs because they find paying for a rating etc. distasteful. They have no choice but to accept it.
Look in the mirror and ask yourself what you did as a senior pilot to stop the practise of paying for a job. I'll guess that all that really happened was a bit of whinging and gossip in the crew room.
Apathy is what lead us down the path of SSTR and pay to fly schemes and pilots have no-one to blame but themselves.