Sentence examples for a subsistence model from inspiring English sources

However, having identified the social with the growth of the economy in the past two centuries, Arendt cannot characterize it in terms of a subsistence model of simple reproduction.

He wants the community to move from a model of "get by and survive" with a "subsistence level of earnings" and instead, help maintainers of great software "win big and be financially rewarded for that in a significant way".

Farming was generally of a subsistence character.

Her father was a subsistence farmer.

Tomatoes, coconuts, pineapple, and fish support a subsistence economy.

"The job here was on a subsistence salary," he said.

Nelson was a subsistence athlete, living from meeting to meeting.

'You don't want to be a subsistence rice farmer.

He abandoned the penniless existence of a subsistence fisherman to become a big-city vegetable seller.

"There's no comfort in living on a subsistence level," Mr. Dumpson said.

In recent years, the average catch plummeted to two kilograms per day, yielding a subsistence wage.