Dash, you idiot. You’re doing it wrong. Derpy would fare better than you.

@Background Pony #06AE
If they are as dexterous, and creative thinkers as humans (despite the complains humans have very flexible arms and legs), they would have developed tools they could use without fingers. Perhaps even a hand-like substitute after learning from monkeys or raccoons.

In the show they have arp thingies that could fire arrows without hands, like in the olympics episode. But as Pinkie showed, a crossbow is way more practical.

@Draco Dei
Obviously, unicorns in such society would be probably ranked higher than the rest. The government would push towards all-equality, but underneath the worthiness and value to society would be felt by everyone, if only subconsciously. Especially far from Canterlot and the “all-seeing deity” present within.

I gooltta admit, I’m growing to accepting the idea of some basic “touch range telekinesis”; you do raise some good points. Regarding the “bacteria”, I think most ponies wouldn’t care about these things, or would have a default resistance to most of that. Overall, I’d put the “pony society” alongside the Medieval age, or the Renessance, or perhaps at the brink of Century of Steam, with extreme reluctance and scepticism to nee inventions.

Also, and I pretty much consider this as given, ponies would be about as dexterous and flexible as cats. Maybe not “lick your own ass” dexterous, but definitely “put your hooves behind your head” dexterous, or “spread your pussy for me” dexterous, if you’re into that (you don’t appear to be based on your favourites, that’s okay). Therefore, they could get into the pose that Rainbow Dash is in this picture, but probably wouldn’t be able to hold and arrow, much less nock and aim a bow.

@Background Pony #06AE
By that logic the Cakes would find it difficult or impossible to stay in business? Seems like that would make Unicorns the ones logically in charge of basically everything, with others reduced to “disabled individuals with relatively niche advantages”.

That is why I not only go with touch-range telekinesis, but extend it out two inches to allow “fingers” (if of different and perhaps less dexterious nature than a Human’s physical fingers. I DO make it tiring to use too much to give a reason why Earth Ponies and Pegasi use their mouths as much as possible. Once heard that the ability to reverse this would expel dirt and perhaps bacteria, making eating with hooves much less of an infection vector.

I have a feeling that if Equestria was real, the pony society would work a whole of a lot differently than it is pictured in the show. Shocking, I know.

Like, literacy. You can’t grasp anything in a hoof, so unicorns (assuming magic does exist in some way) being the only ones being able to write, earth ponies and Pegasi would have little reason to be able to even read. Or the written language would employ hoof marks and teeth bites. Having no fingers, they’d probably count in base4 or base8, maybe base12. Money would probably be horseshoes you could wear on your neck instead of coins, and the system would likely be based on trust as well.