Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal."Thus the squire will learn to be a good landlord, and grow popular among his tenants, the mother will have eight shillings neat profit, and be fit for work till she produces another child.

The excerpt refers to a mother making “eight shillings neat profit” and then producing another child. In the proposal’s deliberately shocking satire, the profit comes from selling a child as food, so Swift implies that a woman might be willing to have children to sell. The answer is “that a woman would be willing to breed children to sell.”

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