Nuthinondaclock got it exactly right.On the surface this is about Joe but the real agenda is to shoot across your bows and ensure you piddling pilots stay firmly supressed in your lowly positions playing with your little toy aeroplanes leaving the important business to the big boys.
It is purely designed to keep a repressed, scared group that way for as long as possible.
Only problem with the that theory is that globally, airlines are getting hungrier for experienced crews by the day. Where I work is becoming like a J* old boys club!
The theory that 'we don't care how many pilots we lose, there will always be more to fill their shoes' is rapidly becoming unworkable. Trying the dodgy overseas-trained unknown quantity route for new pilots can only end in tears.