In-Class Discussion #1

In the first few days of class, we watched a video relating, once again, wealth to overall health and life expectancy. It broke the correlations down almost exactly, around more or less 2 years per $20,000 difference. Though the correlation is expected, the preciseness is not. The video did, however, offer a reason for the correlation, the reason being stress hormones and their long term effects on the body.

What I question there is how it this correlation works with people who move classes in our "Classless" society. How do children born in section 8 housing who graduate Ivy League and become six-figure income adults fare? Or what about children born into upper middle class who are knocked down below the poverty line after the economy crashes in their adults years? Do they average out or adopt the life expectancy of their class as they move?