[TheWife]

Here you go, here is your article. PFT in a nutshell, from an "outsiders" point of view, in simple enough terms for any one to understand.

To get most jobs you need some kind of experience. To get that experience you usually start at the bottom of a totem pole, usually for a lesser company than the one you want to end up with. You work your way up to where you eventually want to be, by putting in your time and working hard, doing a good job, and earning your seniority. The process can some times take years depending on what your end goal is. So if some one came a long and offered to pay your desired future employer a lot of money to take the position you are trying so desparately and patiently to earn, how are you going to feel if their money buys them that job? Your future boss says "hey, Jack Smith wants to pay us 2 years worth of salary to have the job that Joe Johnson wants us to pay him for. Lets take Jack's money and give him the job." If this only happens occasionaly, then it will piss off all the Joe Johnsons waiting patiently for their turn. And Jack will lose his money but be laughing all the way to the bank once he gets enough experience to take the boss's job. But if this gets more and more popular, eventually we will all, in any industry, have to pay some one to hire us, because they will no longer want to pay salaries when some one else is willing to give them profit for the job. It's a short cut, and it does work out for a lot of Jacks. But over time it could be a really big economic downfall because people won't even be able to start at the bottom for small wage and work their way up. And that is why in the aviation industry, most people are against programs that promote and encourage this future economic decline.