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wow thanks for being brave- because you threw that out I think i’ll just add. we all the famous gemara in k’dushin chuf tes alef in which r’ yehudah states that “anyone who does not teach his son a trade, it is as if he taught him to steal”. Obviously learning a trade is for the purpose of working not for idle knowledge. Yes one should find as much time as possible to learn but the healthy way of living perscribed by this gemara is to have a trade.

Another point is back in europe, the percentages of boys in yeshiva was absolutly minuscule. Only the very elite of the bochrim got an oppotunity to learn in yeshiva. Yes there must be learning going on in klal yisroel in order for us to stay alive, but does every third rate bochur need to stay in yeshiva instead of being productive by helping klal yisroel in other ways?