The great missed point is that we are a bereft generation, particularly in the US, and no posek of today is going to undo the prescription of the post war Gedolim. Of course, we may say chacham adif minavi, and that there is no need to adapt to the current circumstance, but this is not borne out by the ‘suffering schver’ phenomenon. Without serious positive hachgocho, this is definitely not sustainable, and simple arithmetic is not on our side. For gloomy outlooks, using past historical templates, the US and its economy will crash hard, and Torah will be sustained by the few and the best, who will live on “some” potatoes, as was the case in Europe before the last churban.
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