Thank you Pixie!
Always a delight to read somebody express in such a brilliant way the concerns of so many of us pilots who have been around long enough to observe the transformation of aviation into just another "business opportunity" and transformed into "corporations" run like a little fascist state by a small and vastly overpaid clique of amoral "executives".
Of course I agree 100% with you description of today's aviation realities, but let's face it dear Pixie: how many "naturally gifted" "stick-and-rudder" pilots will be left in any modern Airline if they would be required to in addition to a college degree, spending a small fortune in basic flight training and a robotic attitude in complying with the endless (mostly senseless) stream of company and government regulations, he is also expected to be proficient in landing an aircraft without A/P, A/T, F/D, w/ PAPI only reference and as little as a balmy 20kt crosswind?