Conjecture

Relative poverty is a property of societies, not of people, and that determines where the intervention has to sit. Part I: individuals have incomes and living standards, they do not and cannot experience relative poverty or income distributions without other people to compare themselves to, and it is societies, not individuals, that have income distributions and relative poverty. If the pathogen is a distribution, no treatment delivered to an individual can address it, and the unit of analysis for health becomes the society. That is why the health problem is a coordination problem and belongs in this book rather than in a medical one.

Coordination architecture