We've been had.
“We’ve been had. “
And those same evil people have been paying you higher wages and/or profits ...
Yes, we’ve been had and I don’t understand the way that some seem to look at it. Some years ago I was listening to a man talking about how we all had so much more than people did in the past and I asked him to explain the fact that people I lived around as a child used to own anywhere from forty to one hundred and sixty acres of land and a house with no debt while most in the current era will be lucky to own one acre. His response was that people don’t need all that land now and land doesn’t have the great value in people’s lives that it used to have. Well, if we don’t need it and it has no value why can’t anyone afford it now? Maybe I don’t understand economics.