subsistence

It depends, I think, on how close to the subsistence level such a basic income would be.

I still try to help my parents as much as I can, but 10 years later they still rely mostly on subsistence agriculture.

If you want to splurge, do some research online, and you'll gain knowledge leagues ahead of "subsistence" medicine.

Are you personally going to be perfectly content with a $10K/yr subsistence allowance?

I think it's foolish to apply philosophies rooted in the idea of independent subsistence farmers to a world that looks nothing like that.

It's perfectly possible to receive "subsistence healthcare" in today's society--just never go to the doctor or take any medicine.

If we assume such automation always costs less than subsistence wages[2], then presumably any given firm will choose to automate all of its processes rather than employ people.

The villagers and farmers were the only ones who had any work ethic left as they were primarily subsistence farmers on the "receiving end" of socialism if you will.

The reason factory workers in poor rural countries put up with no windows, ventilation, or air conditioning is that the alternative is subsistence farming.

If you're a freelancer, you're a "slave" to finding clients and chasing payments, if you're a start-up founder, you're a "slave" to building and selling a product, if you're a subsistence farmer, you're a "slave" to cultivating the ground.

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And it was precisely these policies which led to most colonized economies falling into mostly subsistence farming and the inevitable economic decline.

Where by "economically free" we include such freedoms as "ability to deploy child labor", "ability to pay workers below subsistence", "ability to create the equivalent of company towns", "ability to dump toxic waste into rivers", "ability to blot out the sun with airborne waste", and "availability of vast pool of rural poor workers".