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 boatthe luxuries that people refuse to purchasedysfunctional marriages between men and womenthe unequal distribution of resources among people

The description that applies best to what Swift is satirizing in the passage is the unequal distribution of resources among people.

In this excerpt from Gulliver's Travels (1762) Swift opposes "males" and "females" to "we". The writer characterizes the males and females as vain, full of luxuries, but insatiable when it comes to leading an extravagant life. On the other hand, Swift describes the "we" as full of diseases and vices, as a group with real needs that lives in poverty. In that sense, the author contrasts the two groups: the rich, who have everything but always seek to fulfill their irrational wishes and to enrich themselves a bit more, and the poor, who have nothing and must steal and cheat others in order to survive the starvation.