Talk:Earth ponies/@comment-75.82.51.1-20130210053250/@comment-75.82.51.1-20130210063458

Twilight and flim and flam could harvest  apples much more quickly than applejack ever could. Fluttershy has a better connection to plants and nature than most earth ponies (makes sense though, her being originally written as one.) Rainbow dash is a physical match for applejack even without her wings. Snowflake the pegasis is pretty damn brawny without being an earth pony too. (most of the high class unicorns are also pretty brawny.)

The thing that bugs me though is not that they aren't needed, peasants are needed, but they're still peasants, still kinda sucks to be one. Earth pony powers are by definition limiting. You get an edge in growing plants, and are on average brawnier. Thats... about it. You can do so much more with flying and magic. Flying is... well, the ultimate form of freedom, flight, dreamed about since the days of icarus, Pegasi may take it for granted but flight and being able to control the weather are two pretty major things. Magic, as it is presented in the show, is damn near limitless in it's potential, shield entire cities, teleport, the works. With it you can accomplish flight too, provided your hard working enough.

Sure, every race is necessary for food. You need(ed) Unicorns to raise the sun and moon, pegasi for the weather, and earth ponies to raise lots of crops. But while Pegasi and Unicorns get such amazing abilities alongside the basic necessities, Earth ponies get squat, Bigger muscles and growing better flowers. Sure, their powers are important and necessary, but it gaurantees them no right as equals, and they don't get the oppurtunity to do as much fun stuff as the other pones and never will. /sadfic/

Being needed does not mean you will be treated as an equal, that's basic economic stratification for you.

Hence why I now believe in a secret sect of kung fu earth ponies who could kick any unicorn or pegasi's ass with their chi blo-   ... I mean, anti magic/flying techniques.

But ultimately, it's just a show. There is this awkward imbalance that nobody adresses but... you know, kids show, they would never adress that. It's just a naturally nicer world, an ideal to live up to I suppose.

(....Please convince me otherwise. Despite what I've said I still want to beeeeeelllleeeeeiiiiiive.)