People were not always forced to become "serfs", they often went into it by choice offering them protection of there crops etc etc. This is Similar in the sense that many young pilots now feel forced to accept reduced terms and conditions as they have a large debt hanging over there heads.
With younger relatives going to University and having been to a University that had exchange students over from the United states, I'm only too well aware of the costs now involved.
I agree no one is forced into this, just wondered if the discussion would get a few people thinking and maybe make a few more people take a sensible approach to financing flight training!