For example, Swift presents that one of the advantages of this proposal would be that women would take better care of their children because children would provide "annual profit instead of expenses" (Swift, p. 5 ). Yet in reality, Irish women had to abort or kill their children because they could not afford the expense of raising them. A second advantage of the proposal would be that “the poorer tenants will have something of value of their own… which [could] help pay the landlord's rent, since their corn and livestock are already seized, and the money is an unknown thing” (Swift, p. 4). While Swift seems to make the benefits seem beneficial to the poor, the bitter truth is that the upper class who “rightly value themselves based on their knowledge in eating well” (Swift, p. 5) takes resources away from the poor and spends large amounts of money on meals instead of focusing on the famine that is spreading everywhere