Has anybody considered that the problem is nothing to do with peoples attitudes, and all to do with supply and demand.
Flying has become so easy in the civilian world where it is all automated that just about anybody can do it if they can scrape up the cash, thus loads of people become qualified and the airlines can pay the market rate which is bugger all because new pilots are after the envisaged glamour.
When it was tricky, there were less who could do it, so the airlines had to pay to get you.
Simple supply and demand.
It is of course a false economy, because it is only easy till the automation fails, and then you wish you had good pilots again, rather than pilots who have rarely ever flown hands on since a cessna.