The Enlightenment pertained to reasoning. The writer's ideas do reason with the supply and demand of the Irish economy and, aside from moral reasons, tends to create an effective solution to the problem in Ireland. Enlightenment figures also wanted to transform society and many wrote books, pamphlets, and letters to try to convince of effective change and Swift definitely wanted change. so, The writer argues that children 12 should not be sold or labor. Because children should be educated in order to have the knowledge and ability to feed themselves in the future to avoid the sale of children.