Tzippi:
Clearly $$$$ helps decide which girls have an advantage. If there are 150 girls and 100 boys on a island ……
Which 100 girls of the 150 will have a better shot a getting marreid. Most likely looks, yichus $$$$ etc. However even if every girl had everything. Or better yet. Even if every boy had all the qualities that you think they should have, it will not change the fact that 50 have no chance of getting off the island.
You see, as a community we really shouldn’t care whether the 50 stuck girls are rich or not, pretty or not, great personalities or not. What we should care about is making sure there are equal numbers on the island.
Oh bytw, when the numbers are equal suddenly the $$$ and other such factors become much less of an issue as the boys have less leverage.
If you want to alleviate the $$ problem (and you do) then solve the numbers. The money will automatically solve itself. Simple law of supply and demand