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| central theme = The rich are callous toward the poor.
| elevator pitch = Ease your economic woes by letting the rich consume your children - literally!
| genre = [[Satire]], Political fiction
| publication date = 1729
| source page exists = yes
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* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Swift regrets that he cannot contribute to these scheme, as his youngest child is nine, and his wife is already past her childbearing years.
* [[Kill the Poor]]: More like, "Make The Poor Sell Their Children For Food," but you get the idea.
* [[People
* [[Poe's Law]]: Perhaps the [[Trope Maker]]. Swift's over-the-top satire was taken at face value and discussed as an earnest and feasible solution for the Irish poverty problem.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]
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[[Category:Satire]]
[[Category:Literature]]
▲[[Category:Jonathan Swift]]
[[Category:Literature of the 18th century]]
[[Category:Political fiction]]
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