They have come to subsist at a crossroads of contemporary culture, somewhere between journalism, film narrative and television entertainment.
Others subsist at Cambalache, located minutes from boutiques selling luxury goods and the headquarters of government factories adorned with huge photos of Mr. Chávez.
But in recent years people have found a way to subsist at it, by guiding, or working for apparel companies, or, as in Steck's case, thriving on sponsorships and speeches and slide shows — what Steck calls "business".
But even that agenda isn't tough enough for UKIP, which, in addition to bashing immigrants and Eurocrats, makes a fetish of targeting "scroungers" who subsist at the taxpayers' expense.
Aggression is so serious because it involves the infliction of physical force in violation of the most elemental entitlements people and their communities have: to survive; to be physically secure; to have enough resources to subsist at all; to live in peace; and to choose for themselves their own lives and societies.
One in four households has insufficient net worth to subsist at the poverty rate for three months if they lose their jobs or income.
The reality is that Indian women who subsist at poverty level must earn a living and contribute to the general household income.
She says that cacao farmers in West Africa, where about two-thirds of the world's cacao is grown, "are only making a quarter or a third of what they should be, subsisting at the poverty level, at best".
"If the snow which produces this glacier must augment, and the heat of the valley is no obstacle to the perpetual existence of such masses of ice as have already descended into it, the consequence is obvious; the glaciers must augment and will subsist, at least until they have overflowed this vale".
