It’s always easier to spend others peoples money rather than money you yourself earned.
Not directed at you, Goq, but it’s also always a lot easier to bash others than work on your own shortcomings.
By and large, I find that the more time people spend in yeshiva and kollel, the less they are into gashmius, so it’s ridiculous to specifically bash yeshiva bochurim for this.
It’s like going to an auto assembly plant and seeing cars without doors, and deciding that you’ll never buy a Toyota because they’re missing doors.
Human beings are born selfish. It takes time, chinich, maturity, and working on oneself to overcome this, and truthfully, very few people ever do, and much fewer to the point of not caring about gashmius at all.
So, many bochurim want a good quality hat. Many of these same bochurim will end up living lives with very little gashmius, and great sacrifice for ruchnius, or even better, histapkus to the point that it’s not even a sacrifice.
Would you prefer that the ones who are too involved in gashmius leave yeshiva? Will that make them less so?
A fellow who was in yeshiva with me was a little too into gashmius for my liking. He found very up-to-date, stylish suits (Syms bash), had his 100% cotton shirts professionally cleaned and starched, and enjoyed a good meal at a nice restaurant. Should he have left yeshiva?
It would have been klal Yisroel’s loss, because he’s now a very fine talmid chacham and marbitz Torah. He also lives a simple lifestyle; small house, used minivan, Concord shirts, etc.