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I am sure they can subsist on one income, it's just that they don't want to.
I don't think that distinction matters much to the point Azathoth123 is making. (Personally I'd put the family in that thread in the grey area between "couldn't subsist on one income" and "maybe could but it would be terrible". Husband and wife on $10k/year each. I wouldn't want to try supporting a family of three on $10k/year, though maybe it could be done if "supporting" means "living on the streets and barely managing to feed" or "scraping by using every bit of government-supplied assistance available".)
I wouldn't want to support a family of one on $10K/year. But I think the context of this discussion is that the middle class feels the need for two incomes and so the wife works instead of being a housewife.