Because merchants did nothing to help their community and lived off other people's labor.
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Brewers were freemen, and were above serfs but below the nobility, in the middle class with other merchants and tradesmen.
The crusades helped to end Feudalism by changing the triangle hierarchy and shifting the power. During the crusades the Christians and European people started to not only hate the wonderful Muslims but envy their work and great ideas. So the Europeans started to do business and trade with the Muslims. Peasants started to see they could better themselves by leaving the manor and becoming merchants trading with the Muslims on the coastal. So now peasants were merchants and merchants were added to the hierarchy changing the triangle and feudalism. Now peasants power and wealth increased, nobles power decreased, and kings power increased by the taxing of more people. This power also decreased the nobles because their protection wasn't needed anymore due to the fact the king could now buy an army for protection. So the deal between nobles and knights soon decreased and the feudal hierarchy began to end
the people who paid the peasants were the kngihts and lords.
The SERFS, followed by the peasants.
Were everyone peasants, there would be no peasants.