You know when Bronies first became a big thing I read a ton of articles about them trying to figure them out. This was before I discovered Weston Chandler. This one article I will remember FOREVER!
Basically, it was someone pointing out that the fact Applejack (The character who worked on an apple farm) would not be able to run her farm in real life because she is an earth pony (No magic, no wings) and a unicorn (Magic) could easily cut the means of production and sell so cheaply that they would put her out of business.
The theory of the article was that the reason that friendship was stressed so much in Equestria was to keep peace between the races of ponies. Really, in a free market Equestria most of the earth ponies would be in the poor house because there is no way they could keep up the competition.
I know that was spergy, but I was SWEAR it was a real article from some news site trying to show how intelligent bronies were and how much thought they put into their passions.