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# Subsistence of the Dealer

## Definition

The dealer's own maintenance and livelihood, which must be provided for through the profit from selling goods, just as the dealer advances wages to workmen during production.

## Source Chapter

Book I, Chapter 7

## Context

Explained through the analogy that "as, while he is preparing and bringing the goods to market, he advances to his workmen their wages, or their subsistence; so he advances to himself, in the same manner, his own subsistence."

## Economic Domain

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