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> Standard of living includes one's agency over their environment.

No, it doesn't.

It sure does. One's quality of life is different if you are a prisoner or a pauper or a king. Even if your accommodations are the same.

it certainly does when i think of quality of life.

Standard of living and quality of live are different things.

Only to academics. In common language they are synonyms. In studies and academic texts they mean different things.