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Yonasan Rosenblum wrote about that- it used to be (before the crash) that a good businessman could make major money without knowing much English just by being good with real estate.
Joseph, the length of the Slabodka kollel time is mentioned in sourced beyond Wikipedia. It’s just the easiest to quote here. Call up Rav Shmuel Kaminetsky Shlit”a and ask him how many years the Slabodka kollel was. There are also sources describing the original kollel of Rav Yisroel Salanter ZT”L.
However, Joseph, you are arguing that those who learn in kollel should stay there no matter the burden on the community, or no matter how burdensome they are on their own family, or no matter how many kids have to go to public school because the tuition got exorbitant to cover their kids. I’m not sure that Rav Aharon Kotler ZT”L would agree with this. Derech Eretz Kodmah leTorah Chav Vov Doros…