The Bounty voyage was undertaken at the request of Caribbean plantation owners, who were seeking a subsistence food for their slaves.
Jay also quotes, "with caveats," an account of Buchinger "from someone named Smith" in a Dublin journal, in 1833: "Notwithstanding, too, his reluctance to the manner of life from which he was compelled to seek his subsistence, he was rather of a sportive humor, and had great liveliness of spirits".
That report asserts that commercial resource use in its extraction of raw materials, ecosystem changes, and pollution effects—has a disproportionately large impact on the poor, who seek only subsistence.
Some of the sellers are simply the rural poor, seeking a means of subsistence.
These were volunteers seeking some means of subsistence, as there was no conscription.
It is promoting a new-style apprenticeship scheme, in which would-be craftspeople – generally, these days, career-changers seeking job satisfaction – would get basic subsistence expenses and workshop space to practise their trade, and master craftsmen a salary to mentor them for maybe one day a week.
They are also seeking to support alternatives to deforestation which is caused by subsistence farming and the need for wood fuel for energy and reward countries that reduce forest emissions.
But the European Court agreed that she could be denied access to a subsistence allowance available to jobseekers because she isn't actively seeking work.
Not all of the residents are illegal, and many seek no more than subsistence.
China also needs to expand faster than wealthy countries to generate jobs for workers laid off by state-run factories and for farmers flocking to cities to seek something better than subsistence income.
