He has a bunch of sharecroppers working for him.

So I asked him, How are your sharecroppers doing?

The US could end up with a "sharecropper economy," where Americans largely work for foreign-owned firms.

But in Monaco you feel every day that you are living in a monarchy, as if you were an 18th-century peasant.

Instead he was a yeoman, not a peasant, knight or disposed Nobleman, and he wasn't even a social rebel.