in praise of work

There is an unfortunate trend in the contemporary Orthodox Judaism when able-bodied men spend their whole lives in "Kollelim" - "colleges" where all they ever do is learn Torah, receiving a meager stipend. Note that the vast majority of these men will never "graduate": they will never teach, never make a halachic decision, they will never write a book, they will never say anything new or even ask a new question.
This would have been fine if it were their private business.
Alas, it is not:

1. They dodge the draft in Israel


2. They are supported by the Israeli taxpayers


3. They spread the poisonous anti-work ideology: e.g., a teacher at a Chabad day care in Brooklyn, NY, USA, told her 5 y.o. pupils that Yakov was good because he learned Torah, and Eisav was bad, because he worked (not murdered/robbed/raped, but merely worked).

I wonder how those people reconcile their behavior with these quotes from Ethics Of The Fathers (Mishnah Pirkei Avot):

• 1:10: Love work


• 2:2: All study of the Torah which is not supplemented by work is destined to prove futile and causes sin

and with many stories from the Talmud about various great Rabbis who worked for a living.