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Examples
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There are people that rely heavily on the subsistance lifestyle.
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We barely have an insurance program of subsistance level.
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Al believes that if 99. 999999% of Americans die, and the remainder languish in primitive, disease-ridden subsistance, we have had what we need.
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There are people that rely heavily on the subsistance lifestyle.
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Reasonable accomodation and subsistance expenses will be met by the airlines if the passengers choose to wait for a safer flight.
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I believe that in a poor feudal-based country with barely subsistance farming broadly spread across the countryside, you'll discover low IQs and very little human capital.
Demographics of the Oligarchs, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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If the median was subsistance farmer then 0% of the population would be content at 50% below subsistance.
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Convert those subsistance farmers to a smaller number of more intensive farmers, and use the freed-up workforce to drive industry.
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The greatest inequality in the western world was probably pre-industrial revolution, and once private property was protected and markets could begin to flourish - but before they had created the great wealth for the masses - inequality was the gulf between barely subsistance, at a level unimaginable today (a shack with no utilities, no water, no heat, nothing, and meager rations of farmed food) and kingly wealth among an elite few.
Envy, Happiness, and Social Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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For the first time ever unskilled workers could move to urban areas and earn a wage far above the normal subsistance level so common in the agrarian or fuedal era.
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