You can't really blame some of these wannabe's trying for the international cadet program. It seems some of them come from a social environment where career and earning expectations are low. As such the CX cadet program, even at reduced conditions, would be still a better career path than anything else available to them. Maybe coming to Hong Kong with no housing benefits doesn't even lower their standard of living depending on social environment and country they are coming from.
Pretty hard for them to understand what you guys are talking about, even though you are stating the facts.