Looking toward the future?? What future? Who needs people? They pay taxes, but you have to feed them. Zero sum game.
I always thought pilots were a cut above, and it still may be so, and what I'm seeing is only the cross-section of the mediocre who bother with forums. I'd hate to think that this is it, in these forums, 3 or 4 real pilots plus a bunch of bull!!!!ters, but it may be so.