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But what does it mean to live well? Decades of the world exercising the same doctrine have taught people that the high quality of life means economic expansion, larger houses, faster vehicles, and additional things. However, behind the glitter of consumerism trails an increasing discomfort - increase in inequality, environmental devastation, and the feeling that he or she is no longer a part of nature or community. Had prosperity depended on wealth and consumption alone, how

The "standard of living" concept was somehow newly coined, although it was actually hammered out across history with various factors acting as forces of change throughout time: economic structure, environmental condition, technology, and systems of governance. From ancient survival-oriented subsistence to multidimensional indexes of today, the historical arc tries to explain how human well-being has moved along with material and social development.  Ancient and Medieval Found