To say that it is a klalah to earn a living is very different from saying that Hashem gave a klalah to mankind and as a RESULT of that curse, they will forever have to work hard to earn their bread. Work is not the klalah. The NECESSITY to work is. There is a fine line of distinction between the two. Hashem’s original bracha was for Adam to tend the land in Gan Eden, but the food would literally come forth with little effort on his part. As a result of the first aveira in history, that food would now come forth only after a CONSIDERABLE effort. It’s like fishing where the fish are literally jumping into your net one after another, versus standing there with a pole in the hot sun for hours and hours with few bites on the line.
What is a real curse, is for kids to believe that they are entitled to have their parents totally support them when they are grown adults, just as when they were children. If their parents had had the same attitude, they would not even have the opportunity to expect that support, because the parents themselves would have no means of support. And who will support the generation born to those children who are not earning their own parnassah, when THAT NEXT generation reaches adulthood? The amount of money made by yungerleit is not conducive to supporting the next group of yungerleit.
There should not be an either/or mentality of learning versus working. BOTH should be done together, part of each day. Shabbos is a day when the learning can be more extensive. The rest of the week, people have to man up and pull their own weight in life. Yeshivahs also need to stop blinding our kids to the importance of earning while learning. Working is not a necessary evil. It is an important tool for teaching our kids the value of an honest buck,the satisfaction that comes fromearning a paycheck and putting it in the bank, and that money doesn’t grow on trees. Maybe when they have to earn their own way, they will appreciate what their parents did for them a lot more.