macdo
I notice that you think that it is ok to pay for your basic licences.
Let me guess.
You only paid for your basic licences?
Funny how people set the bar to exclude themselves from the "bad" people who have ruined aviation as a career.
Personally I never paid for any of mine. Does that mean I can look down upon you?
I'm my not so humble opinion the fault is in no way with those who will do anything to get into aviation. Good for them.
I want to be an astronaut. If there was such a thing as pay to spacewalk I would sign up tomorrow.
There isn't, because the current astronauts won't allow idiots like me anywhere near a rocket.
The fault lies with the pilots/unions who watched it happen with the usual pilot "it won't affect me so sod 'em" attitude so prevalent in civil aviation.