Dude
I think that everything you say is fair comment, but it is what it is, people will always maximize their options its human nature. I worked for years to pay my way through flight school and bum around for some kind of start, at that time I knew a couple of chaps that came from incredibly wealthy families that paid for them both to go all the way to ATPL with Gulfstream type ratings, what's fair in this life? All I meant before is, now that I spent half my life earning the money to get to be a professional pilot I'm not quiting now because some younger guy wants my job. Its is a tough job market out there and even tougher when you get to my age. Everyday I lose out to ex airline guy's, what can you do? Bugger all I say.