Very few pilots are blind (sorry for the joke). Much like public K12 school teachers, they know Exactly what they're signing up for and are cool with it (or th

Very few pilots are blind (sorry for the joke). Much like public K12 school teachers, they know Exactly what they're signing up for and are cool with it (or they wouldn't have signed up...). Folks outside might very well be amazed at what they agree to, at the staggering difference in their own compensation schemes. That doesn't mean the participants are ignorant. It would be like claiming a school teacher would be surprised at having to spend a lot of time with children, or claiming a pilot would be surprised to learn he would be expected to fly an airplane. What you're really asking is why people outside the organization are completely frozen out because they refuse to participate in the compensation model and should big brother intervene in a conformist manner to make the compensation scheme "more normal" for a self selected group who do not want it. Its much like "you can't be a MD without working 36 hour shifts" or "you can't be a (real) programmer without working 120 hour weeks in open plan offices" it freezes out a large segment of the population, and that's just kind of how it is. Obviously the vocational skills of doctoring and writing programs have no inherent need of abusive working conditions, but that is the industry standard and those participating like it and there's no shortage of applicants, so...