In sum, few people remain at subsistence level.
Dolphin hunts also take place at a small subsistence level in the Caribbean and the Arctic.
Salaries were below subsistence level for the Europeans in the East.
As might be expected under the terror, the extortion, the taxation and the corruption, the economy and whole livelihood of the people of Anyang had declined even below the subsistence level.
It therefore made no sense to try to grind their wages down to subsistence levels.