Lubitz was earning a sum and occupying a seat that many American regional pilots dream of.
To equate the actions of an individual with serious mental illness who somehow slipped through the cracks with a typical young pilot who has incurred a substantial debt in his efforts to break into the industry is absurd.
Things are apparently not easy for young pilots seeking to make a career of it on either side of the Atlantic, which explains the ease with which certain Middle Eastern and Asian carriers are able to staff their cockpits with zero training investment of their own.
It has ever been thus.