Merchant

A merchant was a person whose career was based on the trading of goods. They have been mostly superseded by modern supermarket chains. In some societies such as India, they speak of a merchant class.

See also[edit]

• Social class and Economic class
• Upward mobility
• Aristocracy or Nobility
• Bourgeoisie - some say White collar
• Working class - or laboring class - some say Blue collar
• Working class values - American values - Real America
• Proletariat
• The poor - peasant or serf class or shudra and untouchables caste
• Welfare state and Class warfare

• Caste system
• Brahmins—priests and scholars
• Kshatriya -- warriors and nobles
• Vaishya -- merchants and farmers
• Shudra—artisans and those of the serf class.
• Untouchables—the lowest social class