For example, Swift argues that one of the advantages of this proposal would be that women would take more care of their children because their children would provide "an annual profit instead of an expense” (Swift, p. 5). Yet in reality, Irish women had to abort or kill their children because they could not afford to raise them. A second benefit of the proposal would be that "poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own...that [could] help them pay their landlord's rent, their corn and livestock already being seized, and the money being a thing unknown” (Swift, p. .4). While Swift seems to make it seem like the benefits benefit the poor, the bitter truth is that the upper class who "deservedly value themselves on their knowledge of good nutrition" (Swift, p. 5) are taking away resources to the poor and spends large sums. money for meals rather than focusing on the famine that is spreading across