>>1198328My reason is we've only seen a few major places in all of Equestria, never every acre of it. We've only seen a few farms in Equestria and these farms are managed by Earth Ponies.
If you think it's still not enough farms to affirm on average farms in Equestria owned by earth ponies, then sure. But it is still all we have to go off by.
But at the same time, I think I do see where you're getting at on account of seeing earth ponies around Ponyville, Canterlot and Manehatten, in which case we see lots of types of background ponies, and we don't know for sure what their occupations are as regular ponies.
I still lean towards most earth ponies are agricultural for my two reasons:
1. The show often visit farms and all of them occupied by Earth Ponies. I'm not saying these are all the farms in Equestria, but earth ponies being reoccurring for these farms tell me it's somewhat of a norm in Equestria.
2. That nature, natural order or whatever you call it is messed up in Equestria, and that the whole reason why ponies come in types of three is because they were made/evolved/spawned to maintain the natural order themselves. Earth ponies for the earth, pegasi for the skies, unicorns for the rest of it. When ponies began to civilize into tribes, it was a caste system to maintain and provide for one another. When Equestria was founded and progressed over time, ponies had more freedom and opportunity for careers outside "what they were made for", but Equestria is still reliant on the caste system because nature is still messed up without them.
But given the both of us only have so much to go on, for a cartoon about ponies, it is a bit of a conundrum.
Some have associated strength with earth ponies as well. I'm sort of... uncertain about that myself. Bulk Biceps clearly physically strong for a male pegasus, but is he stronger than Big Mac? And just as I said that not every earth pony pursuit agricultural or earthy-interests in their lives, some may choose academic or lifestyles without heavy lifting or so, so some earth ponies maybe physically weaker than other earth ponies. But if an earth pony and a unicorn have the same diet and lifestyle, would the earth pony still be stronger than the unicorn? I dunno.
But, Princess Celestia is a tall-pony, I can't recall her feats of strength though.
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