The answer is bourgeoisie. Bourgeoisie means a social class of people who possess the means of manufacture, making them in the higher or mercantile class. It is a sociologically distinct class, particularly in modern times, denoting to individuals with an assured cultural and financial capital fitting to the middle or upper level of the middle class; a rich and frequently wealthy level of the middle class (capitalist class) who opinion is contradictory to the proletariat class