 Alright, so we know that the ponies even in Podunk Ponyville have a currency which is bits Yeah, we haven't seen a close-up of the bits, but I'm pretty sure Celestia's face is on them Well, we've seen them close enough to know that they're obviously gold or some sort of obviously some sort of precious metal coins mine in that I don't know who's mine in that the mining ponies the some guy who's got a pickaxe There's definitely no mining in Ponyville. That's for sure. That's for sure. It's not a mining town. It's a farming town So there's deaf and there's definitely a market where they buy and sell things So it's definitely some sort of capitalism going on I think the impression though that Applejack's farm kind of has a monopoly on a lot of the food in the area Well, I mean at least apples, but there's this the carrot farms and the grain farms other farms is the dairy farm Right, there's a better in slaving the cows the question. I don't know if they're necessarily in I think they're indentured servants. Anyway Regardless, right? There's definitely a capitalist Pony economy, but at the same time, right? Look at Cloudsdale, right? There doesn't seem to be anyone paying for the weather It's definitely a sort of government initiative. I think it is definitely like the post office There is definitely a lot of socialist elements, right? You look at twinkle Twilight Sparkle is not paying for school She's getting free school. How do you know her parents aren't paying for it? We don't know But it's like an apprenticeship or if she's got she's got a scholarship or she's getting room and board for free education Yeah, right, so there's definitely a lot of socialism in this capitalist world No, what's what's curious is I'm wondering how much of that is the princess on I mean Is Princess Alicia unable to control the weather and do the season changes everywhere or can she Only do the Sun and then someone else has to do it. It looks like in Canterlot From what Tyler Sparkle was saying other unicorn ponies get together and they you know do the weather change there But yet in Ponyville they do it this old traditional way Well, we haven't seen how exactly they do it in a quest year, right? Is it like this one big spell where it's like snap spring or are they just using magic in sort of the telekinesis way? Like move the snow out of the way and all those sorts of things now My theory at least on the winter wrap-up and that sort of stuff is that in Ponyville there I mean this goes back to my theory that there were just earth ponies and then the bloodlines came in from the outside and Changed everything the earth ponies for whatever reason have all these traditions that they follow and even from the thousand years before when Celestia was controlling everything they still have always done their traditional changing of the seasons I think that Celestia could send Unicorns to do that for them or teach them to do it But they choose not to because it keeps them self-reliant if something horrible happens They're able to get by without magic See they can tell the fee if Celestia disappeared and the magic controlling the weather and everything failed They know how to till the soil Maybe it was like this right because you came to think this is some Extraterrestrial invasion by the magical unicorn something from the outside. No, I don't think it was from the outside This gives me a better idea. It was right. We know for a fact Ponyville was an earthpony town So a long time ago hundreds of years they said right they've been doing it that way So Ponyville's been around for hundreds of years. So only hundreds of years ago Well, there might be other earthpony towns that are older. It was only earth ponies living there Yeah, which means I think that it was actually three Separate biological races perhaps with a common ancestor that was split at some point much like human beings, right? So it was you know and there was some sort of segregation Pegasus's lived in Cloudsdale They didn't live with the right so there were unicorns There are Pegasus's and there were earth ponies all living completely separately and only perhaps more recently within the past Hundreds of years. Did they integrate a question now earth pony? Pony par thigh that was fixed. Ponyville was founded by earth ponies We know that that does not necessarily mean there weren't other ponies there. I Don't know. I have a feeling I think it was a colony ponies I mean look at what the Greeks did in ancient times. They founded these colonies all over the place I think there were I think Ponyville was pilgrims who were like, you know, they were all the same and then maybe later Did they accept the Pegasus? Maybe there was some sort of aesthetic sect like maybe they were the monk ponies who were like We're going to not use magic and we're gonna make this town where we're self-reliant independent of Celestia Maybe they were originally separatists Sparkle is sent as is sent there really to make sure that they don't get up it What but that what does that do with the economy right? So the economy one thing I want to point out though is that in Cloudsdale like they make the weather This is clearly funded by the government. Yeah, there's no one buying the weather You never see anyone like paying rainbow dash to move the cloud. She's just it's just her job Well, maybe it is just her job and she gets a stipend. I mean we haven't really seen how did how did she? I mean did she just build her fancy house floating there does every made a cloud She just made it does every Pegasus pony in Ponyville have a similarly awesome house because we've Fluttershy's a Pegasus and she lives in a cottage. Yes No, but I'm saying every pony we've seen most of them other than pinkie pie who lives in an apartment basically over the cake shop They all like only our main characters have these awesome awesome like independent houses No, there are other houses that you've seen in the background that they like Cherilly lives probably above the school house or next to it Maybe and there's definitely government buildings the mayor I don't know if she lives in the city hall, but there is a city hall But look at the winter wrap-up all the main ponies except for pinkie pie are leaders of their respective groups They are kind of the upper class of pony well That's nothing right even if you have a job right doing something, you know like Fluttershy or whoever, right? Yeah, there is it seems to be mandatory Government community service for every pony, right? You know even though Applejack works on a farm and she sells apples, right? He you know and obviously there's some doctor that she can that's capitalist that she can pay to get a new hit for grandma Yep, right does she still has to help with the winter wrap-up It's like this mandatory government work that everyone has to do now the question is is it and nobody nobody's unemployed Everyone's either in school Nobility or has a job well, we're not a hundred percent sure though. We haven't seen other I mean maybe Philly Delphi is a shithole. I know Philadelphia is a shithole It's like a bite, but no everyone in Ponyville has a job You know everyone has something that they do now the real question though is is do they have these government jobs? Because Celestia can't manage it all on her own or is Celestia Making things slightly difficult for them in order to teach them lessons give them something to do I think it's just both right if she can only she only has so much magic, right? She makes the sun go up and down which is hard I question whether now she really does that she definitely does because you see her do it at the end of episode 2 But I'm wondering if maybe she has set up her and her sister set up the mechanism and maintain it But don't consciously control it. Oh, she definitely does it. I think she only manually Maybe she only manually does it on the special occasions. No, I think she manually does it all the time I don't know pretty sure and that because it says she makes the Sun go up and down She may be she maintains just like rainbow dash moves the clouds are the mechanism created in ancient days perhaps by her She magically uses the telekinesis of her of her unicorn horn to make the Sun go up Because I'm really curious as to whether or not the Sun goes up and down the same way in the Everfree forest I'm wondering ever free forest is always dark. The Sun does not shine on that's why I'm curious Is the Sun a celestial body or is the Sun something else? Yeah, I don't know if the Sun is a celestial body or not But whatever the Sun is she is manually controlled until we see a sunrise or a sunset outside of Equestria I really call shenanigans on that whole thing. Well, you she's making it go up and down It might not be a gigantic ball of burning hot fusion far away in space It could just be a pretty close fireball that she moves around regardless whatever the Sun is She has control of it completely She could bring it down and burn everybody if she wanted to or she could make it She could make it so it never rises again be like it whatever that and no because when she wasn't there It didn't rise right now Is it because she wasn't there or because Luna broke the system or because Luna did something Active to prevent it from coming up. Well, I think maybe Indy you can cast a spell like flaming sphere sphere and it sits there and it just does its thing And you have to concentrate and say all right go do your thing somewhere else I think it was it was two things number one Luna had the moon up And I think the moon and the Sun whatever they are right and they must not be that far away if Luna was literally in the moon, right? Was she really literally was that circle of the magic that confined her? No, she was actually up in the moon And I think that it was the you know They're they're much like two magnets that have the same pole right the Sun and the moon can't get too close to each other They repel right but so in addition to bringing the moon up and refusing to bring it down Makes it harder for her to raise the Sun because it's pushing against the moon She also trapped Queens Princess Celestia So she wasn't there so she couldn't even push try to push the Sun up right because the moon was there and she was trapped Anyway back to the economy. I don't think all this is kind of a random aside I don't think all of the snowflakes are hoof made I don't think I'll snowflake. I'm pretty sure that they make the templates and the special snow like maybe for special occasions I think the good snow is used in cantor lot and that Ponyville gets the best Or maybe they're designed like here are the 15 snowflakes for this year And then they put them in the machine like in a fab that just makes that snowflake. Oh, they design all the snowflakes by hoof And then I think that's it I think they design them every year possible There's no way they make them all by or they or what they do is they can design them by hoof and then use magic To make more but there's only Pegasus is working in the snow in the weather factory Yeah, right which means that the manufacturer of rainbows and snowflakes can be done without unicorn magic But they have in they have industry. They have machines. I mean there are machines making clouds. It's true They did you remember Twilight Sparkle too She had that science thing that she failed to use to figure out Pinkie Pie switch. It's also true So they have machinery. They have machinery. They have clearly access to steel. Yep Yeah, but yeah, I think that definitely the way it works is that Celestia cannot do all the work on her own Right, so there needs to be ponies do also doing the work if they want to manually control Equestria as opposed to letting nature have any so the fund and on top of that She intentionally keeps it that way so that everyone has a job and there's no homeless bums or Moochers or anything like that. So the fundamental question then is so she's are they I mean they fund these works Do they do it on an ad hoc communist basis as in you know, these people in Kazakhstan are making Whatever components and then they just make them knowing that they'll get the benefits of the fact that the components were made later Or is the government run by Celestia actually paying everybody and if so are there taxes? I you know the thing is yeah, I think it's a proper communism where there is no Like there is no centralized control of an economy I don't think the government is printing coins and using them to pay for goods and services I think everyone is just doing their part and that it's a machine. That's it's a managed economy It's not a managed economy necessarily solely by currency I think what it is is that if you are a government worker, right like Rainbow Dash, right? You don't need money, right? You're a guy. You're you know, you're you're Twilight Sparkle You don't need money unless you want something government just gives you stuff I mean if you want an apple in the market, you've got to buy it Well, no Twilight Sparkle just went to that restaurant and they brought food out there. How do you know she didn't pay? She didn't pay you didn't see her pay. Yeah, they might have cut away It's not like I mean everyone ran away from the rain Maybe they forgot but people clearly were paying for apples and Gilda fucking stole an apple. She didn't pay for it That's true, but I don't think the government and they don't have marks It's not like in the Temporary series where they make their mark to say like I have bought this It's not like they have a ledger. I don't think they're exchanging coins. The government employees do not have to buy things I think only the other ponies need money No, I think that certain things are guaranteed like the crop the basic food is available to everyone if you need food You get food in Ponyville, but if you want to buy like the fancy anyone could just walk around eating grass But if you want to buy the fancy apple or you want to get the fancy smoothie grass smoothie Or you want to buy the diamond or anything like that you need money So you get all your basics taken care of but if you want fancy things you've got to buy them or barter for them Well, I mean the thing is a lot of things though It's like all you really would ever buy with money, right is like a dress from rarity gems or Gems or die or something like that, right? Nobody has to buy People were buying apples from Apple Blossom. Yeah, but you don't have to buy books You just get him at the library. There was no if you want to borrow them if you want to own one I think you have to buy it with gold. I don't know I mean are you even allowed to own a book unless I don't think anyone reads except while it's In Ponyville. Oh, did we've seen in the insides of other people's houses? Did anyone else have any books in their house? I didn't have any books. I had a bookshelf. I don't know I didn't say any books. I had a lot of nice furniture that was broken Yeah, it's like did you make that furniture? She clearly not I Yeah, it's definitely some sort of strange economy, but but it's a princess wants it that way It is clearly a managed economy. It is clearly communism. Pony ism. Pony ism Well, that's why they don't let nature take take its course. There is no that removes all uncertainty, right? You can't have a bad crop if you're if you're controlling the weather, right? So there can never be a pony drought or a pony flood or I think they're I think there are except, you know Cuz one time rainbow dash was like we got to get out here before she causes a drought during the winter wrap Up they pointed out very specifically that if they don't get the harvest set up You know, they're running out of stored food if they screw up the winter wrap up they have problems And I think if they fuck up though they have to go to Canterlot to get aid possibly