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In the following passage, I don't quite understand how the highlighted grammar
豊かになればなるほど and the predicate 快適な暮らしがなくなる relate to each other. That is to say,
I don't understand why there's a direct relationship between increasing one's
life's abundance and losing one's comfortable life:

> 日本の住民は、長生きすればするほど健康が心配になり、生活が **豊かになればなるほど** 、今の **快適な暮らしがなくなって**
> しまうのではないかと不安で不安でしかたがなくなるのです。

My attempted translation:

> The longer the life of Japanese inhabitants, the longer they get concerned
> about health, and they get unavoidably more and more anxious about whether
> it isn't the case that **the more their life becomes abundant** , **the more
> they lose their now comfortable lives**.

It doesn't make sense to me that losing their comfortable lifestile is
correlated to how abundant their life is, but it actually correlates to their
aging (長生きすればするほ) itself. I understand that the _concern_ of losing one's
comfortable way of living grows as one gets older, something like:

生活が豊かになればなるほど、その生活がなくなるのが心配になる。

but I can't really see anything like that statement in the passage above. What
am I missing?
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Why is 生活が豊かになる (life becoming more abundant / rich) causing 快適な暮らしなくなる (losing one's comfortable lifestyle)?
You've entirely left out the last part of the sentence as the comment points
out.

'The richer their lifestyle grows, the more anxious (不安) they grow that they
will lose their comfortable lifestyle.'

今の快適な暮らしがなくなってしまうのではないか - 'Will [we] perhaps lose [our] current comfortable
lifestyle?'

と - quote particle

不安で不安で仕方がなくなるのです - '[They] grow helplessly anxious'
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