Answer:
A higher standard of living for the middle class was increasingly identified with the ability to purchase goods and products that were produced on a mass scale.
Explanation: After the Industrial Revolution, products were able to be both produced AND purchased on a mass scale by society.
The high quantity of a variety of quality goods readily available to citizens for purchase, with less labor from humans required due to the use of machinery to lighten the process, greatly increased the standard of living.
