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Calculates 120,000 children born to the poor annually, weighing economic options for each.
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Swift parodies the cold political arithmetic of his age by reducing human beings to economic units through detailed but absurd calculations.
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A child will make 'two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish.'
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