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Anonymous
#238307
1 year ago
That is a very... interesting art style.
Anonymous
#238312
1 year ago
But Twilight's only good at harvesting the apples, and didn't Faust say that Earth Ponies were particularly good with plants and such?
Anonymous
#238315
1 year ago
"That is a very... interesting art style."

It's a take on editorial cartoonist Chuck Asay. He draws like that.
AdrianBrony
#238329
1 year ago
if my musings are anything close to correct, Earth ponies emit a passive magic that will raise the hayflick limit of the cells of anything near them safely. As a result, plants grow properly and can bear fruit because without them the plants either die out or go out of season without providing fruit.

this also would affect other ponies and animals, making earth ponies and every pony living near or with ponies live longer and healthier, including faster healing from injury, making earth ponies also fantastic therapists and nurses.
Anonycat
#238362
1 year ago
Didn't Lauren said that only Earth Ponies could grow crops, while Pegasus or Unicorns could as much grow a small garden, and
>only if an Earth Pony lived next to them?
Anonycat
#238365
1 year ago
Also, I completely fail at using the ">" sign.
Anonymous
#238370
1 year ago
Seeing how Asay (the cartoonist its parodying) is, well, ignorant (seriously, look him up), I think this was done intentional on the artist's part.
Anonymous
#238381
1 year ago
DEY TURK ER JARBS!
RyuSpike
#238395
1 year ago
Dear Princess Celestia,
By helping my friend Applejack during the harvest season, I have unintentionally caused the entire Apple family to lose their farm and home. Apparently, it is cheaper to have only one non-Ponyvillian unicorn to work an entire orchad than it did when it was being run by honest, hardworking Ponyvillian earth ponies. Thanks to me, AJ's older brother is forced into prositution to provide for his family while Applejack and Apple Bloom are staying with Rarity until they can find a new job. Also Granny Smith was eaten by rabbid bunnies. I learned that a foriegn workforce can deal some major damage to a small town's ecomony and even more damage to your friends' lives. I also learned that cheap work equals cheap pay. And I hate government.
Your faithful but paid poorly student,
Twilight Sparkle
RealityCheck
#239229
1 year ago
errrr, no.
Earth ponies are MUCH BETTER at raising plants and animals, or dealing with the earth (rock farm).... but unicorns and pegasi can hack it if their talents lie that way. They just don't have an innate magic advantage.

And seeing as Applejack OWNS Sweet Apple Acres, it would be more along the lines of her *hiring unicorn helpers to do the harvest.* That is, assuming anyone could get past her incredible levels of STUBBORN to convince her to change her ways...
RealityCheck
#239338
1 year ago
This sort of stuff is written by people who can't think more than one step ahead about economics, never mind paying attention to the source material.

To repeat: Applejack owns sweet apple acres. It wouldn't be her out of work, it would be any farm hands she might have hired-- and canonically, she doesn't HAVE any hired hands. She, Big Macintosh, and Applebloom basically work the whole farm themselves.

Second, Twilight could pick the orchard clean by herself, but she's noted as a magical prodigy of extremely rare power, she already has a job, and basically, her services would be at a very high premium. Applejack and other farmers like her COULD hire less talented unicorns--- even young ones can use telekinesis-- but it's questionable whether they'd be any faster than traditional applebucking, seeing as most only seem able to move one or two items at a time, magically.

But let's assume it becomes standard practice to hire unicorns to do the harvesting. The only ones who would lose their jobs would be those earth ponies specifically employed to pick fruit and vegetables.... and that would only be temporary; as productivity increased they would be put to work in other areas where physical strength is a better asset than telekinetic dexterity (such as, say, hauling the loaded baskets back to the barn as they're filled, hauling the wagons of fruit to market, etc.) this is the error the economically illiterate make in every age; they forget that while innovation may cost jobs temporarily in the short term, increased productivity will create more and better jobs elsewhere over the long term.
RealityCheck
#239436
1 year ago
As it currently stands, the earth pony's assets--- their physical strength, specifically-- which COULD be spent more productively on other tasks, are being wasted on a task which could be done better with magic. This is a *net loss* for them. Having earth ponies pick apples is as inefficient as having pegasus ponies pull plows or unicorn ponies deliver the mail (without a dragon.) If Applejack hired a couple of unicorn helpers, at least during applebuck season, her productivity-- and profits-- would go up.
Anonymous
#240205
1 year ago
It's not like economics are a real science anyway.
Anonymous
#240940
1 year ago
@RealityCheck: I think you are forgetting that Twilight Sparkle is the most magically powerful unicorn in Equestria, except for maybe Celestia and Luna. Most unicorns would not be able to lift apples off of all those trees so easily. Twilight is the exception; Applebucking is generally speaking the most efficient way of getting the apples off the trees.
Anonymous
#240956
1 year ago
I absolutely love how much thought people are putting into this whole scenario, namely far too much. I still love it though.
Jimmytrius
#241167
1 year ago
Somehow, this reminds me of Peanuts XDDDD