Teatowel - I really can't figure out your position here. You're not even IN the industry from what you say. How have you possibly had time or chance to become so jaded?
If you're so happy making a point by not getting an interview with Ryanair, great, good luck. But it isn't going to change anything. This has all been coming for donkeys years. Even the best schemes like BA's used to require you to pay them back for your training in some way or form. What's happening today isn't that different. It's just a question of risk and who is taking it. Nobody ever moaned about that though because unions exist to serve senior guys and the senior guys were happy with their lot. Now that they chickens are coming home to roost, after the people who could have acted failed to, the blame guns are out for everybody but themselves.
Accept that we are collectively responsible and move on...