Reply To: Rav Amsalem

Myfriend, please look at the beginning of Peah in the big shas, and see that at least one Rishon interprets the phrase Yafeh Talmud Torah Im Derech Eretz to mean that Derech Eretz is the ikar. In addition, in Kiddushin, it discusses the case where there is only money to hire a Rebbe for a son or a father, but not both. The gemara says it should be for the one with the most potential. Nobody is taking anybody out of klal yisroel for suggesting that many people need to work.