Manlets be coping.
Correlation != causation
Being richer means eating better, which means growing taller. Maybe it isn’t height that gets you income, but the opposite.
It does explain why countries experiencing more malnutrition tend to be poorer and shorter. Guatemalans are a good example of this. Our height demographics are skewed by the rural poor who are famously around 5 feet at the maximum height. People in the cities tend to be closer to five foot nine.
Note that this is about the association between height and income. It is possible that a confuser variable or set of variables is/are influencing both income and height, thus producing the observed correlation between income and height. In this case, the association would not imply causation. But even if this is just association and not causation, its a significant fact, because then there is some unkown set of factors making taller individuals having higher probabilities of earn more.
Inflation is when everyone gets taller
