Answer :
According to the traditional Confucian view, society is made up of four classes: government officials, farmers, artisans and merchants.
This scheme exalts public officials as shepherds of the flock; it esteems farmers as the economic basis for the whole of society; and it denigrates artisans and merchants as not being socially necessary - indeed it sees merchants in particular as being parasitic on the rest of society, making themselves rich by making others poor.
Answer:
B
Explanation:
they had low status because their wealth came from the work of other people