Read the selection below from Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift and answer the question that follows.
But, in order to feed the luxury and intemperance of the males, and the vanity of the females, we sent away the greatest part of our necessary things to other countries, whence, in return, we brought the materials of diseases, folly, and vice, to spend among ourselves. Hence it follows of necessity, that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, flattering, suborning, forswearing, forging . . . .
Which description applies best to what Swift is satirizing in the passage above?
vain women traveling overseas by boat
the luxuries that people refuse to purchase
dysfunctional marriages between men and women
the unequal distribution of resources among people
