That is for absolute certain. There was a certainly the wealthy, I don;t think there is a period in history without them. There was also a middle class, but not at the same % of society as it is today, and of course there were those without much in the way of cash. I think that was a little different then, their were a lot of people without cash but a lot of them were rural and still had enough to get by, but not much cash. Self sufficiency was way more common then than it is now. I did not mean to paint a picture of poor people, just people without much cash.