Why was merchantism looked down upon as for peasants and Jews

>>1317549
Italy remained somewhat urban during the Middle Ages, what with being the centre of the former Roman Empire and all, and cities = trade.

>>1317549
Ships sink, prices change, the power a Merchant held was always in flux and they depended on cooperation with merchants and principalities for security.

However a landowner was a military power and had complete control of life and death over everyone on their land, they were a class above a merchant. To gain notoriety like the Borgias they needed control over a state.

>>1317549

The ruling elite always try to keep themselves in power and potential rivals in check. This is why feudal societies-- where the elite are a rural warrior class-- treats merchants as beneath contempt,and also why modern liberal capitalist societies treat aristocrats as irrelevant and inherently morally bankrupt.

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>>1317684
>Aristocrats will always get btfo by Merchants whenever the competition is fair
>mfw people go "but muh superior noble genes"

>>1317684
>>1317697
Is Britain the only country whose aristocracy managed to successfully straddle the two systems (land-ownership and mercantilism) and even attempted forays into industrialism?