May I second that sir.
Yes the travelling public like cheap tickets but: we have never been offered the choice - if you will permit the hyperbole - between the risk of getting flown into the ground versus paying more to have a pilot who won't kill us (exaggeration deliberately for effect).
It doesn't seem likely that this result is a function of either inexperience or low pay. Most of us get paid far less than the co-pilot is said to have been paid; many professionals with student loans are paying more than 40% of their present job's salary for their training; and it further appears to me a disservice to the overwhelming majority of professional pilots with integrity, to imply that being disgruntled with pay and conditions could instigate such a murderous outcome.