I don't want to date poor people

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It seems the boundaries of the concept of a gold digger aren’t very clearly defined, either. What if a woman ditches a man because she’s begun to see him as a loser? The fact is that money is more often than not a consequence of being strong, industrious, hard-working and unwavering in the pursuit of one’s goals, which is usually what you need to succeed at anything in life.

Not that the idea of wanting only sex, let alone its presumably unquestionable evilness is clear at all to me, but I digress.

To be fair though, some cultures are more hypergamy-inducing (for girls and women) - traditional Eastern and Asian communities in particular are extreme hypergamy cultures - and of course that produce more... gold diggers.
It is a very very common problem men face in the East.

What is a gold digger? Is it these guys with parrots and patches on their eyes who used to dig down treasures? Arrrrrrr!

I think the only lesson in the video is about the male protagonist's drive and hard work. There's still a lot I don't understand about something which seems so simple; I wish I'd had done that when I was young and completely dependent on my parents (which I arguably still am, since they found my current pseudo-job for me and I still don't think I can survive without it), but don't really know what I could have done other than just giving up on anything other than studying and doing what my parents told me to for many, many years. Among lots of other things, this would mean no going out, no chance to make friends and much less to meet young women who could let me know what a disgusting loser I am. Oh, and my parents would tell me it's due to my lack of social skills, as if the skills by themselves could magically change the fact that I'd have no time to use them. In fact, I had no time to learn them in the first place.

On the other hand, I doubt the female protagonist would feel guilty—she'd just be a little frustrated that she chose the wrong bet. But it was still a sensible choice: for every young man who climbs out of poverty by his bootstraps like the male protagonist did, I'm sure there are a lot who fail. She doesn't seem to have ended up too badly, unless she can't help being disgusted at her husband because she now sees him as a loser. Perhaps she's sad because she'd like to cheat on him with the male protagonist and the latter is unlikely to accept it