I disagree with that comparison. There is a big difference between having normal living conditions -like a dorm and food – and $300 Italian dress shoes.
I disagree with the comparison between a Borsalino and $300 Italian shoes, and your comparison between generation.
The basic point remains valid.
DaasYachid, you make it sound like a lot of frum people drive around in fancy cars.
That was a bit of an extreme example, and there are other chinuch errors which can lead to too much gashmius as well, but a common one is certainly parents’ overemphasis on gashmius.
You said, if deprived they’ll leave yeshiva, and….work! A dirty four-letter word I suppose.
Technically, it is four letters. 🙂
If you want to have young bochurim who could be learning leave yeshiva, we part ways here.
I rather see it as a sign of the “extreme decadence” of our reality/society (American Yeshivish)
More than any other part of society, or as a result of absorbing the increasingly decadent values of society?
We had our chance with wedding Takanos
There is still too much waste, but the very yeshivish chasunos I’ve been to lately have been relatively simple.
Very high physical/material expectations.
Not what I see in the very yeshivish crowd.