![]() Orphaned and homeless children are looked after by the local parishes, so it would absolutely advantage the country to have additional revenue. Swift further stated that the country would be capable to save $50,000 in “maintenance” costs if 100,000 children were consumed each year. Even if we correct it for inflation, it is clear that this is a repulsively inadequate amount to survive on for even just a month, let alone a year. ![]() ![]() ![]() Changed to US dollars, that would total to around $0.10. Swift has even premeditated the net profit to be 8 shillings for each child. The “advantages” offered by Swift only states the similar idea: deprived people will be able to use their children as a resource. The logical conclusion is that if the suggestion was followed through, the immense majority of the Irish inhabitants would finish existing within a few generations, because no children would be left to grow up and have children of their own. ![]() Ireland is a principally Roman Catholic country, and during the potato famine the only persons who weren’t poor were well-off English gentlemen or landowners. I find it sarcastic that the very people who the proposal is presume to help – poor Irish families – fall into both these groups. The utilization of children will reduce the number of “papists who, according to Swift, were “most perilous enemies” and also the “principal breeders of the nation”. ![]()
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