Yep - there's already a pilot shortage - of experienced captains who are type rated on modern jets (or even better, if they are willing to pay massively inflated fees for a rating).
They must be willing to drop everything at a moment's notice and move to a third world sh!t hole, work for a dodgy agency that pays crap wages and zero benefits, and skims 20% of your salary for doing absolutely nothing.
They must also be willing to sign a contract that locks them into that particular agency forever, that makes the pilot 100% liable for every possible thing they can think of, and indemnifies the agency / airline from taking any form of responsibility for anything whatsoever that might go wrong.
And any time when such pilots are mysteriously not forthcoming in the numbers the agencies would like, they go weeping and wailing to newspapers about the massive "pilot shortage". Which then gets turned around and used by unscrupulous schools to sell the dream to the next generation of punters, who don't realize that at the first-job level, there's already 100 qualified wannabes for every genuine job going.