I don’t feel Rav Elyashiv’s words are being understood correctly.
As such we must protest and warn against all sorts of trends … that seek to harm the pure oil of the hareidi institutions… Such a framework will subject hareidi Jews to the control and culture of secular Jews who have thrown off the yoke of Torah.
He doesn’t anywhere say a frum man who needs to earn a living or doesn’t feel he’s cut out for learning should BE LEARNING. He’s simply talking about Nachal HaChareidi, how it’ll impact on yeshivas – (“hareidi institutions”) and subject hareidi Jews to the secular culture.