Which is one way that swift criticizes society in "a modest proposal"?
by suggesting that people care so little about children they would be willing to sell and eat them
by suggesting that people would be appalled by the idea of selling and eating children
by highlighting the ways in which the plan could people support people's families
by highlighting all the practical ways in which people have tried to remedy poverty

Swift criticizes society by suggesting that people care so little about children they would be willing to sell and eat them.

Explanation:

A Modest Proposal is a satirical essay, written by Jonathan Swift. He published the essay anonymously in 1729.  

In the essay, Swift suggests that Irish people would improve their financial situation if they sold their children to the rich people. In his view, children of Ireland should be fattened and used as food for the rich land-owners. Swift, of course, uses satire to mock attitudes that people have towards the poor. He does not really consider selling children as food a good idea, but is exaggerating to strengthen his argument.

by suggesting that people care so little about children they would be willing to sell and eat them

i think

Explanation:

where is the passage?

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing