Rush Limbaugh

Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people's own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. It's an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn't prosperity.

American Entertainer

Boots Riley

A record is a commodity, but so is a hamburger. Just because I work at McDonald's doesn't mean I reap the benefits of that commodity. That's the reality with most artists in the record industry: They're getting paid a subsistence wage so they can keep producing a commodity for the record label.

American Musician

Stewart Butterfield

I see all kinds of people work hard all over the world, and some of them are barely making it. I don't just mean subsistence farmers. I mean people in the developed world who work multiple jobs, and because the cost of health care and child care eats up almost all of the living they make.

Canadian Businessman

Arancha Gonzalez

Predictably, open markets made it possible for countries to drive rapid growth by hitching their wagon to the world economy and using global demand to pull people and resources out of subsistence activities into more productive work.

Spanish Economist

Robyn Davidson

The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains the foundation of the global economy to this day.

Australian Writer

Shaffi Mather

In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.

Indian Businessman

Ertharin Cousin

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.

American Public Servant

George Berkeley

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

Irish Philosopher

Charles Darwin

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

English Scientist

Alexander Hamilton

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

American Politician

Focuses on having just enough resources to live, especially in poor conditions.

Basic Needs

Often used to describe minimal living standards in discussions about poverty.

Poverty Context

Implies a very basic level of living, without luxuries or excess.

Minimal Living

Relates to the lowest amount of financial support needed to survive.

Financial Aid

Stresses the ongoing nature of practices or traditions.

Continuation

Highlights how cultural aspects maintain themselves over time.

Cultural Perseverance

Used to discuss the presence and importance of intangible concepts.

Abstract Existence

Can be used metaphorically to talk about foundations of feelings or relationships.

Emotional Foundation

 somebody mobile in Africa let's say oh yeah yeah subsistence farmers can text and find out crop prices or they'll say yes I saw cell phones they're reporting malaria outbreaks in there and they're doing this kind of thing and all of that's true but it clouds your mind if that's your if that's your model for thinking about mobile in Africa you're missing something really important

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 Now, a subsistence wage scenario, you might think, is exotic and strange, but it's actually the usual case in human history, and it's how pretty much all wild animals have ever lived, so we know what humans do in this situation. Humans basically do what it takes to survive, and this is what lets me say so much about the em world.

What would happen if we...

 They always used subsistence fishing. They lived on the ocean, and from the ocean. And as the Indonesian government has started to mandate that they stay in one spot, that has changed everything. How do you tell that story? That's a very important story. Why? Because as people stop moving,

Cory Richards: Pushing...

 You recognize what your child needs and you step up to provide it the best you can. Thinking like a mother means seeing the whole world through the eyes of those who are responsible for its most vulnerable people. And we're not used to thinking of subsistence farmers as philanthropists,

In uncertain times,...

 up to the Highlands very isolated tribes subsistence farmers living as they have lived for millennia there are 800 different languages in the highlands these are the most primitive people in the world and they indeed also release oxytocin okay so oxytocin connects us to other

Trust, morality -- and...

 to work on hides that was just normal way of life it's a special feeling when you've got your food and you're betting on a mountain that you can see right out the window while you're in your cabin that's what subsistence living is it's just nice just like doing the dishes

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 where I went up to the highlands -- very isolated tribes of subsistence farmers living as they have lived for millenia. There are 800 different languages in the highlands. These are the most primitive people in the world. And they indeed also release oxytocin.

Paul Zak: Trust,...

 jaws of a wolf or died over a period of a month of starvation that is life in the bush we really feel very strongly that we are deeply involved in the whole cycle of life and death subsistence is a huge part of living in the bush because

Alaska Twins Live Off...

 an income to the local communities so they don't have to rely on forest resources for subsistence it's hoped such ambitious and long-term plans will provide the next generation with the means and motivation to preserve both

Adorable Tamarins Face...

 And we are causing problems for subsistence farmers and sea-level rise and wildfires and natural ecosystems. And so the adaptation side is even more underfunded than the mitigation side. For example, helping poor farmers

Subsistence