# 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 Distribution ---