While this proposal isn't quite as "modest" as Swift's, I would argue he's using the phrase correctly. You think he's actually suggesting making ratbots that su

While this proposal isn't quite as "modest" as Swift's, I would argue he's using the phrase correctly. You think he's actually suggesting making ratbots that survive off pizza crust and ferretbots to find them? This sounds like a mockery of the pirate bay's proposal, just as Swift mocked how the people of his time thought about the poor.