It's always been this way. I'm not bothered by a middle class person having to take out a mortgage on a $200,000 house. I'm more bothered by the fact that my great-grandparents came here with no money and no English skills, but were able to buy a several hundred acre farm (which they financed...) and make a very good living off it. My grandfather's younger brother took over the farm and it made him a wealthy person. It was the next generation that got screwed every year on the price of their finished product, a price set not by the market but by the U.S. Government. And by the rise of big farms and illegal labor...

Good luck trying that these days.