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As a rule, unless you are Swifting, never start your idea/blog post with 'a modest proposal'.

It is a set of keywords for satire.




For those who may not know: the original "A Modest Proposal" was a 'solution' to Ireland's poor economy that suggested selling infants to the rich for food as a way for the poor to earn money.




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