It’s difficult. Editing in L.A. has become like acting: an over-saturated market and a belief that people do it for the love of the craft and not the paycheck.
Look at it like this: The people who offer unpaid work only exist because the cost of “film making” has plummeted in recent years, so anyone can make a movie now. A few years ago these people would not have existed and you wouldn’t have had anyone to rant against. Instead there’d be silence and “no work”
These people are here to stay unfortunately.