Talk:Rarity/@comment-3146930-20140130051401

So this is something I noticed while listening to the song Generosity earlier today. In the song, Rarity gives the doorman a gemstone as a tip and he offers to get her change before she tells him to keep it. This means that not only are precious stones in the world of MLP a valid form of currency, but that even those with a simple job like Doorman are trained to know the value of these stones on sight and make change accordingly.

Also, one of Rarity's special talents is finding precious stones and this talent actually lead to her getting her cutie mark (depending on your interpretation, Rarity's cutie mark relates to her ability to find and use precious stones). This has been shown a few times, like in the episode with the Diamond Dogs and the episode when we find out how the main 6 got their marks in the first place.

Anyway, what I am getting at is that Rarity never has to worry about money for her shop it seems. I mean if she is ever having a bad month and gets behind on payments, it seems like she would be able to just head out into the wilderness and find a few stones to pay any bills she may have. In fact if she really wanted to, she could go out and probably find millions of dollars with of gems and just keep them locked away. That just seems very strange to me that theoretically, Rarity's ability allows her to just go out and find money.