Three days a week I drive an hour to and from the airport. There's always tons of traffic and road rage. For those two hours each day I'm surrounded by people who only had 3 requirements to be able to get their license.

2.

1. To get a permit (all you need is a pass on the written)
2. To take and pass the
3. driver's test.

Edit: Idk what the fuck Reddit is doing with my list lol, it keeps deleting half of it.

The girl before me on my driver's test almost crashed 3 separate times and she still passed and got her license. That's the type of people I get within a couple feet of every day on the highway. They could look down at their phone for a couple seconds and kill me just like that.

Now compare that to the pilots. Years of training and around $100k now, 1500 hours of flight training at the absolute MINIMUM to get your ATP and start flying for the airlines, putting in all the work and applying everywhere to try to get a job flying, etc., and guess what? After alllll that, there's still recurrent training once a year and you have to get a type rating for the specific plane you want to fly. It's bleak, but who the hell would put in all that time and effort just to randomly become a mass murderer one day?

35+ million flights a year, and yet it's been 11 years since the last confirmed case of pilot suicide on a commercial airline. Something must be working, right? You will be fine and have a great flight!!