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[–]jet199Instigatrix 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You need to remember there was no middle class back then. You were either nobility or poor. Also traders and businessmen were actively hated and oppressed by the nobility, they didn't run society like they do now.