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''A Modest Proposal'' (full title: ''A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and For Making Them Beneficial to The Publick'') was written in 1729 by Irish satirist [[Jonathan Swift (Creator)|Jonathan Swift]]. It starts off like a modern essay detailing the hardships of the Irish people who are living in poverty and how the current means of fixing the problem are inadequate. Then Swift presents his own idea, ostensibly relayed from an "American friend":▼
| original title = A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick
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| author = Jonathan Swift
| 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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▲'''''A Modest Proposal''''' (full title: '''''A Modest Proposal
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Needless to say many people found Swift's little joke about [[
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* [[Baby Factory]]: Technically baby farms, but the same basic idea.
* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: It ''starts out'' normally enough...
* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: Completely averted.
* [[Eats Babies]] / [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: The whole point.
* [[Get Thee to
* [[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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* [[Wham! Line]]: You have to start reading from the beginning to get the full impact of the line quoted in the introduction.
* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: Swift says that one fourth of the children saved for breeding should be male, and that "one male will be sufficient to serve four females." If one fourth of the children are male, each would have to "serve" three, not four females.
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