Self-sustainability

Self-sustainability and self-sufficiency are overlapping states of being in which a grown-up or organization needs little or no assist from, or interaction with, others. Self-sufficiency entails a self being enough to fulfill needs, together with a self-sustaining entity can remains self-sufficiency indefinitely. These states symbolize types of personal or collective autonomy. a self-sufficient economy is one that requires little or no trade with the outside world and is called an autarky.

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Autarky exists whenever an entity can constitute or extend its activities without external assistance. Autarky is not necessarily economic. For example, a military autarky would be a state that could defend itself without guide from another country.

According to the Idaho Department of Labor, an employed person shall be considered self-sufficient whether the classification income exceeds 200% of the Office of administration and Budget poverty income level guidelines.

In peer-to-peer swarming systems, a swarm is self-sustaining if any the blocks of its files are available among peers excluding seeds and publishers.