ireland was going through an economic crisis and many people were starving, he saw this problem and decide to mock the aristocratic class for being lavish while the rest of the nation perished.
"A Modest Proposal, published in 1729 in response to worsening conditions in Ireland, is perhaps the severest and most scathing of all Swift's pamphlets. The tract did not shock or outrage contemporary readers as Swift must have intended; its economics was taken as a great joke, its more incisive critiques ignored. Although Swift's disgust with the state of the nation continued to increase, A Modest Proposal was the last of his essays about Ireland."
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The major problem facing Pakistan today is Islamization of a formerly open nation. It has a tendency to take away the rights of people, especially women.
The problem that Swift's proposal is meant to rectify has two sides to it. First, that Ireland is pretty much owned by England. Second, that Catholics have too many children that can never be properly supported in those harsh economic times. ironically, he suggests that if the plethora of offspring are turned into a commodity, it will solve the economic problems. The irony of this claim is first hinted at in the title itself: "Modest Proposal." It is hardly a modest suggestion. Swift was not intending for this write-up to be taken seriously. It was written to illustrate just how bad times were in Ireland, that England was sucking the nation dry, and the only means to assuage the problem was to turn its own citizens into commodities, so that ireland finally had something of its own, that was beyond the claim of English "landlords."
I would say the cure for cancer or the inability to find a alternative to exterogenic energy.
US President George Washington understood that the main problem facing the new USA was that the government was almost bankrupt. The Revolutionary war had placed the new nation in serious debt as it first began.
Every nation consists of individuals who are on a spectrum from modest to arrogant, so it is impossible to know how modest they all are. However, you could judge your question on their approach to political situations and worldly circumstances.
In Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal Swift's attitude towards rich and poor people is one of disdain. He argues that the wealthy do not take an interest in the plight of the poor, and that they are unconcerned by the suffering of the lower classes. Swift suggests that the poor should be seen as a resource to the rich, and that they should be used to help alleviate the poverty of the nation. He proposes that the children of the poor should be sold as food to the wealthy, in order to provide the poor with some financial gain and to ease the burden of poverty on the nation. Swift's attitude towards the rich and poor is thus one of criticism, as he believes they are not taking steps to help the poor, and that they should be utilizing the resources of the poor to help the nation.
He solved the 3 points of view with money
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to pressure the nation to address the problem of poverty