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No, it simply means that until YOU have lived a life of a yungerman in Kollel, struggling with parnoso, having a tired, exhausted wife who ekes a living as a teacher and still cooks for you, does your laundry, and takes care of your children, all living in cramped appartment, YOU cannot preach Kollel to others, since many aren’t able to live like that.
It is not a question of hypocrisy, necessarily, but of being totally unaware from the inside of what it entails, what the consequences for the family may be, and how the yungerman himself will be able to make a living once he leaves the Kollel. Hypocrisy it may be not, naiive ignorance it surely is.
Lastly, if it were a commentary, idealistic as it may be, it may be excusable.