You guys have me all wrong.
I agree that we SHOULD have only highly qualified and highly intelligent and highly capable pilots.
My point is that unintelligent and incompetent people can and do get type ratings and through airline pilot training.
It is not hard to complete the training. That is why it is possible to pay very low wages to people that are intellectually limited.
In my profession however, the bar for a minimally functioning employee is quite a bit higher and as a result; starting salaries are much higher.
It is what it is. I'd rather be a pilot, it is more fun, sitting at a desk sucks. I was a full time pilot for a year or two before we had kids

But trying to support a family on peanuts sucks and I'd like to actually retire one day.