When people I haven't seen in awhile ask me for an update on the Cathay situation... "Hey, weren't you moving to HK?" or something along those lines, I'm honest and tell them in a very factual and non-emotional way that Cathay is hiring predominately Cadets now.
They ask what a cadet is. I explain that as well.
They ask why would Cathay do that. I explain the difference in T+C between the cheap, inexperienced cadets and the experienced expats and how cadets will save Cathay millions per pilot over a 25year career.
Their response to hearing this is always in the same vein...
"I don't want to fly on Cathay Pacific if that's the kind of pilots they hire."
Because I'm a nice guy, I explain it likely won't be a problem for a number of years as there's still a lot of experienced pilots there and the surge in cadets will take awhile to come up the system. And by that time, the manager who thought up/approved this idea will have collected years of fat bonus for his incredible cost savings. Conveniently, he/she will have left or retired as a hero by the time it does become a problem.