Selling Friendship By The Pound
Oct. 27th, 2016 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilightponyThe cutie mark specialist fillies' griffon friend, Gabriella, burst into my library today. I see she got my letter. She's so enthusiastic about every little thing that she's hard to keep up with.
According to Gabriella, griffons can be a bit unfriendly and most griffons don't pay much attention to each other, except to squabble. Gabriella, who prefers to be called Gabby, is an atypically friendly griffon, and yet I wouldn't discount the capacity of most griffons for friendship too quickly. Dash has a strong friendship with Gilda, there was a griffon team at the Equestria Games, and instead of dispersing to the four corners of Equestria, griffons have chosen to continue living in close proximity in Griffonstone.
Ergo, Gabby might be too bubbly for the average griffon, but the capacity for cooperation and friendship is definitely there. Gabby brought me up to speed about the griffon gestalt of monetary worth. Anything worth sharing is worth paying for, or conversely, anything given freely is either worthless or it has a hidden cost.
This tells me several things. I am going to need to take a bag of bits to this summit. I am going to have to demand payment or no griffon will listen to anything I have to say. I am going to have to present friendship and cooperation as a cost/benefit balance and thus, I'm going to have to borrow heavily from Fluttershy's explanations of ecological and behavioral strategies as well as dipping into economic theory.
It's going to be a bit abstract, but with Gabby's help, together we should come up with talking points for the round table discussions and something to hold the attention of the griffon audience during my workshop. We're going to try and monetize friendship! I just hope griffons are at least half as good at math as Gabby says they are.
According to Gabriella, griffons can be a bit unfriendly and most griffons don't pay much attention to each other, except to squabble. Gabriella, who prefers to be called Gabby, is an atypically friendly griffon, and yet I wouldn't discount the capacity of most griffons for friendship too quickly. Dash has a strong friendship with Gilda, there was a griffon team at the Equestria Games, and instead of dispersing to the four corners of Equestria, griffons have chosen to continue living in close proximity in Griffonstone.
Ergo, Gabby might be too bubbly for the average griffon, but the capacity for cooperation and friendship is definitely there. Gabby brought me up to speed about the griffon gestalt of monetary worth. Anything worth sharing is worth paying for, or conversely, anything given freely is either worthless or it has a hidden cost.
This tells me several things. I am going to need to take a bag of bits to this summit. I am going to have to demand payment or no griffon will listen to anything I have to say. I am going to have to present friendship and cooperation as a cost/benefit balance and thus, I'm going to have to borrow heavily from Fluttershy's explanations of ecological and behavioral strategies as well as dipping into economic theory.
It's going to be a bit abstract, but with Gabby's help, together we should come up with talking points for the round table discussions and something to hold the attention of the griffon audience during my workshop. We're going to try and monetize friendship! I just hope griffons are at least half as good at math as Gabby says they are.
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Date: 2016-10-29 12:26 am (UTC)