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It’s not good for China because their GDP/capita is still pretty low (worse than Venezuela’s!), which means there are a ton of people still living in subsistent poverty.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Venezuela 2010

Therefore, there is a certain nature or substance or essence who through himself is good and great and through himself is what he is; through whom exists whatever truly is good or great or anything at all; and who is the supreme good, the supreme great thing, the supreme being or subsistent, that is, supreme among all existing things.

Saint Anselm Williams, Thomas 2007

Finally, for the complete constitution of personality this compositum must exist in such a way as to be "subsistent" (see PERSON).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

That may not sound all that romantic of an aspiration, to merely be subsistent, yet on some level it's among life's most elusive and worthy aims.

Randall Amster: "I Want to Be a Farmer": Food Justice, Out of the Mouths of Babes Randall Amster 2011

That may not sound all that romantic of an aspiration, to merely be subsistent, yet on some level it's among life's most elusive and worthy aims.

Randall Amster: "I Want to Be a Farmer": Food Justice, Out of the Mouths of Babes Randall Amster 2011

Of course, as Father Girardo noted in The Genocidal Democracy - a book which is sadly out of print - this is all according to Washington's plan to make Colombia a compliant country open to unchecked exploitation by U.S. companies with an endless well of hunger for Colombia's vast reserves of oil, coal, fruits, flowers and precious metals and gems, as well as for a desperate workforce willing to accept barely-subsistent wages.

Dan Kovalik: Colombia's "Genocidal Democracy" May Have Claimed Over 150,000 Lives* 2010

In some river valleys the advent of the sailing ship tipped the scales in favor of the trader and against the self-subsistent agricultural community.

Energy and Society~ Chapter 4~ Sail and Trade 2009

The same facts tended to make settlements almost completely self-subsistent.

Energy and Society~ Chapter 3~ Inorganic Energy Sources~ Wind and Water 2009

This is not a cause of extinction for the self-subsistent community, but it destroys all basis for extramural trade.

Energy and Society~ Chapter 3~ Inorganic Energy Sources~ Wind and Water 2009

Here every community becomes in large measure self-subsistent, and production involves the assignment of a few general roles rather than a number of specific and narrow specialties.

Energy and Society~ Chapter 11~ The Organization of Productive Effort 2009