Who is swift ridiculing using satire in "a modest proposal"?

children who were born into poverty and were not properly fed
the english government, which seemed to care little about the irish people
individuals who were underprivileged and had difficulty finding employment
english government officials, who believed selling children to eat was a good idea

The answer is: the English government, which seemed to care little about the Irish people.

Jonathan Swift, perhaps the greatest satirist of all time, wrote A modest proposal in order to critique prejudices in his time that viewed poverty through classist and unjust arguments, but also to critique British social and economic policies towards the people of Ireland in general, who, at that time, were highly mistreated and politically misrepresented.