Box office, you make some good points but are off-base on others. You're right, management hires pilots, and management prefers pilots who cave. You're also right that the primary fix is for regional pilots to not put up with this BS, and refuse to fly for what's being offered.
Where you're wrong: pilots ARE still hired by pilots (even if they are management pilots). And most mainline pilots suffer from the myopic belief that a well-compensated regional pilot group is not a good thing. Just about ALL mainline pilots want lower pay at regionals, not higher, and view regional bottom-feeder pilots as just working the system to reach the exalted mainline the fastest--they were the "smart ones."
As far as you saying it's our problem to fix, and not yours, I take great exception to this. The mainline pilot groups CREATED the second-tier regional system, the ultimate B-scale, and they perpetuate it through ALPA National's policies. This is undeniable.
Also saying that someone who doesn't have their applications in (at a "real airline" is what you're implying) is rather insulting to those pilots who have fought to create a decent career (and a decent airline) out of a bad situation, who are now victims of a malicious mainline management and an apathetic ALPA National response (which is mostly influenced by mainline MEC's).