I agree with gavra.
I find nothing remotely disturbing about this story.
Here’s another story:
Reuven comes to Rov and asks if his son Yehuda should marry Shprintza with bad middos or Yentel with good middos. He says good Yentel.
Shimon comes and asks if his daughter should marry Yehuda with bad middos. He says no.
“But you told Reuven his son should marry my daughter!”
And then on YWN they call the Rov a hypocrite.
It was the right thing for the father to learn; he was able to survive. It is the right thing to marry the girl with money; it will help you survive.
Besides, the logical conclusion of your argument is that the daughter should not marry a learning guy anyway, out of concern for her kids shidduchim, so who will learn?