There's some very good posts here well articulated & researched.
At the end of the day being a pilot is simply learning a skill much like a trade & it's now become just a job with no security at all. The 'them & us' is always at the top of any cockpit discussion, that & poor rostering as well as constant changing of the rules leaves pilots with an uncertain future.
On the subject of paying for endo's/jobs.....well funnily enuf we have all been 'paying' for a job since the day we stepped aboard a training plane to become a commercial pilot, paying for a jet endo for Eg is just part of gathering tools of the trade.
Another thing that seems to keep disunity amongst pilots & therefore virtually not a chance of all sticking 2gether for the common case is the fact that there are still a lot of senior pilots in the system that had it good once upon a time, full service Airlines where T&C's where healthy, now those same older experienced pilots are amongst the younger newer pilots in LLC's who know no difference working for ruthless operators.
Supply & demand does exist but it's manipulated to suit the very few at the top, the worker drones at the bottom are but pawns to be used in a sick game of greed & short term gain.