One of the funniest moments of my time in CX was when an A scale ( well ex A scale now ) training captain told me how fantastically happy he is that his son got into the cadet scheme!!
Most of them have completely lost touch with reality. Most senior captains who never did time as an SO, never made less than FO salary and never lived in anything smaller than 2000 sg ft are utterly incapable of even imagining the lifestyle sacrifices new joiners are/have been making.
Quite interesting is the psychological research that show how type A personalities - i.e. the type CX hires - have by far the most narcissistic personalities and struggle with things like empathy and altruism.
We are not all that different from our managers....