Resident Merchant

A Venetian* resident merchant is one who is often found in all walks of life, but majorly in areas of potential power, and is one who uses his knowledge to keep non-merchants in a stasis of unproductive activity.
Often, he tries to prevent unpopular truths from being known so that only merchants may gain and maintain power.

"I was talking about making money at my job and resident merchant told me that making money was useless and that I should volunteer for transsexuals instead"
"There's always a resident merchant lurking. I told you to beware.."