Elderly people subsisting on meagre incomes in council accommodation.
Subsisting on incomes around $100 or $200 per person per year, the poorer half of humankind is highly exposed to lifethreatening deprivations.
For all intents and purposes, what constituted the subsistence economy operated as a closed economy, communities subsisting on what they had to hand.
The high frequency of caries likely suggests that these individuals were subsisting on a mixed diet.
They are now so poor that they are starving, frequently subsisting on soup made of fatback boiled in water.
They were village farmers, living in palisaded towns and subsisting largely on the corn, squash, and beans raised by the women in communal gardens.
As enterprising capitalistic farmers increased their holdings, the numbers of families subsisting on smallholdings, later on gardens and common rights, and finally on wage labour and poor relief, steadily increased.
Whatever its historical origin, a system of authority can become an "institution subsisting by itself and not by force" only when it is transformed into an embodiment of social unity.
