Younger women don't _yet_ care about your money, mostly. Yes, there are some überwhores who have been honing their hypergamous ways even at high school by only dating upper class high school students. Kinda reminds me of that one South Park episode where all the girls wanted to "date" that one guy because his father owned a shoe store and he gave the girls shoes or something like that. Even popular culture acknowledges womens whorish ways and how they use men.
That's also why its important for men to find a girl who likes you when you're young, because at that point you can just assume she likes you for you. Not for your money, or your status, or whatever.
While its true that women don't care about "alpha status" which is just red pill talk for overcompensating masculinity, they do care about your financial status. When they get out of high school that shit starts to quickly matter to them. Claiming anything else is huffing pure copium. All you need to do is go to the Mecca of hypergamous mentally ill sluts aka FDS and you'll see what they think about men who don't make six figures per annum.