MDG: A Jew. End quote.
Matan: How terrible it is that so many people are learning in kollel, no? It’s also become the norm, going against hundreds of years of history, to use air conditioning, running water and electricity. Widespread air conditioning is okay but widespread kollel is not okay? Besides, today and at any time over the past 65 years most Jews (by far) have been working and not in kollel. So why are you so upset with the people who learn Torah? Regarding getting paid, see the linked thread’s discussion on the Halachah in the Ramah and Shach in Hilchos Talmud Torah permitting being paid.