![]() ![]() husbands would treat their wives better because child-rearing held the potential for an “annual profit instead of expense.”.a new national dish would induce tavern keepers to create innovative recipes and make them “as expensive as they please” and.the poor would gain from the sale of their children and “be rid of the charge of maintaining them”.The tables of all gentlemen of fortune in the kingdom” would circulate children could be “liable to distress,” meaning they could be used to pay rent to landlords Īddition to freeing up £50,000 of government money that would otherwiseīe used to support the poor, “the profit of a new dish introduced to. ![]() This wouldĮncourage the return of wealthy Protestant Anglo-Irish landowners fromĮngland, who had left Ireland rather than “pay tithes against their eating children would reduce the Catholic population.Something unthinkable: have poor Irish families-who mostly wereĬatholic-sell their children to the rich to be eaten. A Modest Proposal made a rational economic argument to propose ![]()
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