ending imitates the elite who create policies and rules that burden the poor, but themselves don't contribute anything

Swift has an amazing understanding of the capitalist economy

he's no longer arguing for the poor, but arguing against the rich here

Swift touches on numerous societal issues that affect all ages-> babies are starving, teenagers can't find work and starve as well, parents can't feed their children so they starve too

humor

Swifts' satire could even be an argument for vegetarian based diet-> the outrage his proposal creates is b/c he talks about humans, and he treats them as humans treat animals, so shouldn't the outrage be the same when proposal is directed at animals?

decor just exaggerates the satire

ironic-> so much emotion for abortion, yet absolutely no emotion is given to the thought of what this essay encourages, and they are very similar in that you still kill children

pessimistic, what about all the good people they could become, the good things they could do?

language makes it seem as if infants are at fault

price discrimination, thank you principles of econ

Nevertheless still an I, so perhaps authors can influence how readers in the future view their life and their person based on the construction of characters in their stories.

This reminds me of Plato's Symposium that we read in lithum where Diotima speaks on men gaining immortality by "giving birth" to deathless works.

So is seems Text is a changing, ephemeral concept, it can't be pinned down as one idea because whoever is speaking it gives it an opportunity for rebirth as a new and different idea.

I think it's funny how he deliberately chooses a word in his writing knowing it doesn't make logical sense then instructs people to understand it in a particular manner