Andy Holt had gasped at the "scandal", the "madness" of so vast a sum being paid to one agent when smaller clubs and grassroots football struggle for subsistence – a snapshot of dramatic inequality worldwide, not just in Pennine Lancashire.
The newspaper described the Chinese pledges as a huge commitment in a country where "development carries the only hope of freeing hundreds of millions from their daily struggle for subsistence".
He thought that "the economic problem" of having enough to live on would be solved, and "the struggle for subsistence" would be over: When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
As long as tens of millions of Egyptians are struggling for subsistence along the banks of the Nile, barely better off in real terms than they would have been under the Rameses pharaohs, Egypt will be in peril.
It is startling because — if, instead of looking into the future, we look into the past — we find that the economic problem, the struggle for subsistence, always has been hitherto the primary, most pressing problem of the human race-not only of the human race, but of the whole of the biological kingdom from the beginnings of life in its most primitive forms.
His theme here was that the accumulation and investment of capital had created a world in which the economic struggle — the "struggle for subsistence" — would be won within 100 years.
Struggle for subsistence Due to erratic rainfall, cereal production in Niger has fallen short by almost 120,000 tonnes –a particularly difficult situation given that most Nigeriens are subsistence farmers.
Another mouth to feed is a struggle for the family of subsistence farmers.
The case illustrates both how refugees struggle to recover their livelihoods in contexts of forced displacement and sedentarization in refugee camps and how this struggle is informed by pre-exile modes of subsistence and cultural values.
Each day, he struggled to support his young family with a patchwork of subsistence farming and grand schemes, always at the pitiless whims of weather and tides.
