i remember, when i was a kid, learning about other stratified societies where merchants were never at the top. As as the economy changes, and now there are armies for hire, yeh, you know, exactly. So the merchant class all of a sudden becomes the most powerful class. You're just, that's your ideology, because, like, it makes you still able to exploit us. Skingo sar: I'm not defending this as some sort of sanction of the natural order. That's horseshed.