In this short story, the narrator is writing out a proposal to solve economic crisis and poverty. He wants the poor to sell their children for “food” to benefit both the poor and the rich.
This “solution” of selling children and “eating them” for food is meaning that the poor should sell their children, get a handsome amount so they aren’t poor anymore and the poor would be able to benefit to society. This is technically slavery in its finest but the narrator doesn’t seem to be fazed about that.
This way of doing things could “solve economic crisis” by selling children and making them do labor so both the poor and rich could make a good profitable amount out of us innocent guys and gals.