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Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" is a work of

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Satire.

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When it comes to the impoverished Irish people of Swift's Day, he makes a satirical case in his article that they should sell their children as food to the wealthy. Swift´s objective was to condemn the rampant economic rationalism that was flowering in his days as well as insulting affluent people´s attitude towards poverty, particularly, back then, the Irish population´s poverty.

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