I'm not going to claim that living a subsistent lifestyle on your own land is a wonderful utopia - I don't think that. But, relative poverty in this situation

I'm not going to claim that living a subsistent lifestyle on your own land is a wonderful utopia - I don't think that. But, relative poverty in this situation would mean that you don't have your own land, to do this. Wikipedia comments that subsistence farmers typically have meaningful economic power in their community: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsistence_agriculture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsistence_agriculture