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Tkacka15 Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary

We’ve been had.

"György Lukács, who profoundly influenced the Frankfurt School of thinkers, argued that a new kind of human arises in a world where commodity fetishism is rampant. Those new humans are so degraded that buying and selling is their essence: I shop therefore I am. Instead of uniting to end capitalism, we buy more shoes. When JD Sports announced a 24% rise in profits last month, for me it felt less like good news for the ailing British high street than footwear fetishism propping up the degrading system that Lukács described. We’ve https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070714061220AAjBytQ, in another context. We’ve been had., who profoundly influenced the Frankfurt School of thinkers, argued that a new kind of human arises in a world where commodity fetishism is rampant. Those new humans are so degraded that buying and selling is their essence: I shop therefore I am. Instead of uniting to end capitalism, we buy more shoes. When last month, for me it felt less like good news for the ailing British high street than footwear fetishism propping up the degrading system that Lukács described. We’ve https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070714061220AAjBytQ, in another context. We’ve been had."

(The Guardian.)

Is 've been had an auxilliary verb in We’ve been had in the passage above??

  

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  • I've got no idea why my cited passage has been repeated twice in the editor.
  • Sorry for that.
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I've got no idea why my cited passage has been repeated twice in the editor. Sorry for that.

(I'm trying my new laptop so it's quite possible that some gremlins were at work.)

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tkacka15We’ve been took, as Malcolm X put it , in another context. We’ve been had

We've been had. - This is an idiom meaning we have been deceived, cheated, or taken advantage of.
In AAVE, the idiom is "we've been took."

AAVE = African-American Vernacular English.

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