To: Alberta's Child
Most societies had a small middle class. It was mainly the professionals that the wealthy needed. Doctors, lawyers, priests, etc, and merchants in societies that allow merchants.However these (merchants) were purged from time to time should they gain to much wealth.
45 posted on
05/16/2006 9:48:10 AM PDT by
jpsb
To: jpsb
That's just plain old untrue; not to mention spurious.
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