Yes sir agree with you that its got to be a hard earned profession. How about guys that paid their way thru flying school? Paid for type rating? Do you consider that the " real way by merits" sure with the right amount of money paying the flying school onecan get a CPL easy be it a good pilot or not.
By the way, before you shoot me, i am not a P2F neither am I the best pilot like you sir. I went thru the cadet system of an established carrier and work my way to command like the rest of you.