Sure.
When you say "job" do you mean "any job" or do you mean "airline pilots job?"
How about a system where you only get the chance to plant your derriere in the right hand seat of an airliner with an Airline Transport Pilots Licence. That is an absolute minimum of 1500 hours and at least 21 years of age? After all isn't that what an ATPL is designed for?
Given the paucity of aerial work type jobs in many countries, that would generally eliminate a portion of the potential competition. Once aquired the ATPL would then be the baseline qualification to apply for any airline pilot vacancies. Of course, and has been the case for many decades now, competition will set the bar much higher than that. Airlines traditionally look for around 2000 hours and 500 hours turbine time as a base minimum. That could be found by spending say 10 years in the military (if you are good enough to qualify) or finding work at second and third level commuter/turboprop operators and building up the necessary levels of experience to move on up the ladder.
Of course even then, those without the stakemoney (turbine time) might feel tempted to buy it, and undoubtably there would be businesses willing to sell it. Vanity line training would probably be just as useless in securing meaningful employment as it is now, but at least the higher baseline requirements would reduce the overall numbers.
In all reality, this is pretty much the way it has always been. Regulatory changes coming shortly in the USA suggest this may well become the wider norm' in the future as well. I can see a more structured fasttrack airline cadet programme being restricted to a handful of approved schools (de facto it already exists.) But this 200-2000 hour "sea of pilots" needs a more clearly defined set of regulatory structures in place, to help prevent some of the current abuses and cloudy thinking, that are clearly so endemic within a significant portion of this demographic.
If you need saving from yourself, this might prove a slightly better hope, than the idea that anybody is going strike to assist you in that particular goal.