Merchants were at the bottom of the social order because they generated wealth without producing any goods. As this indicates, the classes were not arranged by wealth or capital but by what philosophers described as their moral purity.
Farmers sometimes owned their own land to grow crops on, and other times they used the land owned by their daimyo. Their daimyo and shogunate was who gave them taxes. Although peasants did<span> a lot of the important work, they were low in the feudal system. Which effected them alot.</span>
