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The Decay of our Quality of Life No Longer Aligns with the Narrative

It's not just how much money you have, it's whether you still have access to everything of immeasurable value that's destroyed in being monetized.

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Charles Hugh Smith
Feb 26, 2026
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I’ve set aside our standard of living in favor of our quality of life because standard of living is so easily gamed with financial statistics. You know the drill: as life becomes increasingly unaffordable and precarious, we’re inundated with statistics purporting to back up the claim that life is getting better, every day, in every way, because Progress…

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