I'd be willing to bet that the majority of results you find in that search will be men talking about how much women care about money... of course some women do, but far far from all of them

Whatever your position on this, reducing things back to 21st century individualistic dating preferences and gender norms is ahistorical and shallow. The parent comment was spot on in the analogy — this isn’t about what individuals choose, it’s dynastic. A family is “the firm” and marriage in one of the primary strategic tools to advance its interests. At the very top of the pile, the Austrian Habsburg family built a 500 year imperial dynasty in Central Europe primarily from marriages. But it’s similar further down: land, property, family reputation, strategic alliances, and sometimes (but not always) individual preferences as well.

Meh, when we got married she had assets that were easily more than 10x what I owned. I wasn't even able to make any real money until two years later.