Being up in the bush for several thousand hours won't add much value after a certain point.
A very true statement, applicable to most piloting skill sets.
I have a problem with employers abusing it's employees and fellow pilots accepting such low wages.
Then start your own profitable bush operation, and pay your pilots top dollar while knocking out all the competition at the same time. If the big iron employers are drawing in all the candidate pilots to well paying right seat jobs, I suppose that the bush operators will have to rise to the occasion. In the mean time, for a pilot who's just gone from paying to fly at all, to being modestly paid at an entry level pilot job, they are probably happy for the job, and the opportunity fora beginning. Let them be proud in their hard earned job, like anyone else.