Dear Princess Sunbutt

by 2Merr

Letter 62.4

Dear Princess Celestia,

I’m starting to understand what Anon meant when he said having lower expectations of someone is just another way of looking down on them.

I’ve changed the focus of the donation drive to funding the local homeless shelter. The volunteers left, but we’re getting more support now.

Your faithful student,
Twilight Sparkle

Comments

[Voltaje]

Welp, Anon is resting, so spike is writing, now I say this is a complex story written just in letters to Celestia, i wonder how the real story would be if it were written XD.

[Eroraf86]

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I just can’t wait for Celestia’s responses.

[Joural]

Hey, Twilighy learned about the bigotry of lpw expectations! As we all know- poor students can be just as smart as white students, right ol' uncle Joe?

[Rhombicosidodecahedron]

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Something Anon A Mous or Flutterpriest would make

[GoldenLark]

The climax of this story will be when Twilight reads the letters Anon wrote.

[Sigmacipher]

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Correction...Poor students are smarter.

Rich white people think the world revolves around them.

[Jagafeh]

Hey, Twilighy learned about the bigotry of lpw expectations! As we all know- poor students can be just as smart as white rich students, right ol' uncle Joe?

Correction...Poor students are smarter.

Rich white people think the world revolves around them.

That’s better. Just wanted to get rid of that pesky racism.

[enigmaMystere]

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It was a reference to the slip up Joe Biden made.

As in, a joke.

[No I Will Not]

I’ve changed the focus of the donation drive to funding the local homeless shelter. The volunteers left, but we’re getting more support now.

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I just KNOW this is some unsettled Tom meme just waiting to be made...but I'm nowhere near funny enough to come up with it

[Bronzer]

The volunteers left

Which just goes to show they didn't actually care about helping anyone in the first place.

[Bronzer]

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Right, being poor A) means you're not white, and B) means you're magically smarter than white people...oh, and not being poor automatically means being rich. Oh, no wait, that's stupidville, this is reality. You're wrong and stupid.

I don't get where this whole "hate the rich" thing came from (even ignoring the fact that literally everything more advanced than bow and arrow comes from the white people the world likes hating on...you're welcome). I mean, I get jealousy, but those rich people pay your wages. Sure, they pay you to make them richer, but pay is based on how important you are in the structure of a business. Naturally the owner or CEO is at the top of that and gets paid the most because no duh. If you think you're worth more than that, look for a different employer or work hard, study, and get promoted or a new job elsewhere in the company that pays more.

[Ralyx]

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You seem to have a rather common yet strange conception of the relative value of labor and contribution. Claiming that rich people are good because they pay people is hilarious, considering the very existence of said wealth is a testament to how many people weren't paid appropriately for their work. It's not like all of the profit from a restaurant, for example, would magically stop being generated by the cooks and servers if the owner wasn't around to claim a cut for the herculean 'contribution' of owning the business.

Like, real talk, the fundamental concept of shareholding is legitimately bonkers. Investment is important, sure, but the return on a finite investment should logically be finite and diminishing over time. The overall value contribution ratio between investors and workers should of course shift ever further towards the workers over each and every hour they work, but is this ever reflected properly in the distribution of profit? Of course not, a 5% profit share someone initially invested $200,000 for should totally translate to tens of millions of dollars of profit from a multi-billion dollar company!