It sounds demonic and evil to me - not my idea of modest.
from Encyclopaedia Britannica...
A Modest Proposal, is a satiric essay by Jonathan Swift, published in pamphlet form in 1729 (full title: A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen [Burden] to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick).
Presented in the guise of an economic treatise, the essay proposes that the country ameliorate poverty in Ireland by butchering the children of the Irish poor and selling them as food to wealthy English landlords. Swift’s proposal is a savage comment on England’s legal and economic exploitation of Ireland. The essay is a masterpiece of satire, with a blend of rational deliberation and unthinkable conclusion, and its title has come to symbolize any proposition to solve a problem with an effective but outrageous cure.
A Modest Proposal is required reading in any 100-level college English requirement. Or…. It used to be.
That was to high and supersonic Oratam... LOL