By Jonathan Swift
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The essay "A Modest Proposal" suggests a solution to the problem of poverty in Ireland: to sell poor children as food for the wealthy. Satirical and ironic, it exposes the heartless and hypocritical attitudes of the upper classes and calls for practical solutions to alleviate the suffering of the poor.
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