In summary, yes we have been played but don't feel bad about it.
It's been going on since before you were born and will continue until long after you die.

Unless you know a way to permanently crash every computer system on earth simultaneously, we are fucked for eternity.
The system is too big to bring down otherwise.
Y'all wanted to know what I know and 42 pages later, this is all I have left to give.
Peace!