I find the use of the term "rich kids" similarly insulting. UK Government now defines "the rich" as those with taxable earnings above 37,401. Hardly rich by anyone's standards, but rich enough to lose child benefit and have your offspring paying 9K per year for the privilege of getting a couple of lectures a week at a British university. You can hardly blame parents for trying to help their kids if they choose to become professional pilots by providing financial assistance, now that the self-improver option is pretty much gone. It doesn't make them rich kids either, would you describe university students graduating with debts of 70K rick, just because they were unlucky enough to be deemed middle class and rich by their government?
I was lucky enough to receive my training for free by serving in the military, I find the endless bashing of cadets perplexing, especially when most of the cause for the degradation of T&Cs in the airline industry is a direct result of pilots refusing to stand up and be counted. Self-interest has always been at the heart of it and always will.