Jonathan Swift, a great writer by the way, wrote something that I find most approving which was that it is important to make everyone 'productive' members of society. Now he was speaking of Great Britain but his concept can be applied to a more Global scheme as well. 'Swift' as the way I shall be calling Jonathan Swift during this entire text. (That is mainly because I like the wordplay of quoting someone who is named and is 'swift'...n_n).
So now Swift points out that it is not just a social problem but also an economical one, now what could we offer as solution? First of course we could try to find jobs for them, but wouldn't that mean that other people would end up without jobs unless we create a new market? Otherwise we could use aid to help them but that is not really a long-term solution thus effectively only prolonging the problem. And further it would place pressure onto the economy to produce goods for 'none-productive' members of society. This might be a solution for the social problem but ultimately the economical problem either remains the same or becomes even greater. The next solution would be to simply let them all die, but this has several problems, first we would be unable to prevent them from trying to steal, fight or do other things that would damage our society to survive. The next issue would be a social one, most of todays society would be likely to not be accepted of this method. The economy might suffer under this on some sectors such as luxury goods because an entire market would be taken away, while the arms industry would be likely to boom and this create jobs and further reduce the problem. This makes the economical problem fairly small further the need for more soldiers would be inevitable and thus further create jobs, this would at least insure that there would be no 'none-productive' members of the society left. Since the poor ones in Africa and other areas which would then begin fighting would supply the enemy to justify increased arms production and military seize. This is a viable solution which still is not quite efficient since there is still the social problem and some parts of the society would still suffer. Thus we have to search for another solution, now there is the solution which Swift offered which is still viable which offers us the possible way of creating a new market, reducing the number of poor people and finding places in society for the rest which make them 'productive' members of it. This solution is simple and very efficient, he proposed that we should eat children (of about a year of age) of people that would be unable to 'properly' support them, this would have the benefit of a) creating jobs for people that otherwise might not have a future b) it would reduce the number of people that grow up under such conditions and ultimately reduce the number of poor people and of course c) it would allow the economy to grow creating a new market and more consumers, further environment might recover to some degree too since the pressure on the eco-system would be reduced to feed the human race.
Overall Swifts solution offers many great and benefieciary points and it also allows the society to run in much the same way it has in hundreds of years. Destroying bliss is not fair towards society thus allowing the poor to sell their one year olds as food for the richer is the perfect solution.
Two last points here First this text is written using tools Jonathan Swift himself often used, those tools are sometimes considered tasteless and funny now which really applies lies of the beholder and of course the writer as to how the text was intended. Second Ignorance is bliss...n_n...would you not agree?
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