Money and physical health — poverty as health condition

Poverty is not merely an economic condition; it is a physiological one — chronic stress, poor nutrition, deferred care, and environments designed with no one's health in mind. The data is unambiguous: where you fall in the wealth distribution predicts, with disturbing accuracy, how long you will live and what your body will endure. Reason requires that we name this for what it is: not a personal failing but a structural violence.