Scientology met its Vietnam (to quote a former CoS public relations officer who had by then escaped) in 1995 when it took on alt.religion.scientology. By 1997, it came out when they were suing Grady Ward that their income in 1997 was a quarter what it was in 1995. It was at that stage they’d already lost—the momentum against them was only going to increase (and this is indeed what happened) - and the rest was mopup.
tl;dr: they have taken such a hit from the Internet over the past fifteen years that their current income is a shadow of what it once was. However, they have enough reserves—Hubbard was very big on reserves—to keep all ther offices open for years and possibly decades if they wanted to.
Scientology met its Vietnam (to quote a former CoS public relations officer who had by then escaped) in 1995 when it took on alt.religion.scientology. By 1997, it came out when they were suing Grady Ward that their income in 1997 was a quarter what it was in 1995. It was at that stage they’d already lost—the momentum against them was only going to increase (and this is indeed what happened) - and the rest was mopup.
tl;dr: they have taken such a hit from the Internet over the past fifteen years that their current income is a shadow of what it once was. However, they have enough reserves—Hubbard was very big on reserves—to keep all ther offices open for years and possibly decades if they wanted to.