The literal meaning of the term 'TAKEN FOR GRANTED' is 'underestimating the value of someone or something', even though it has many connotations and applicability based on its usage and deduction.
I chose this term as because this term is of real importance to everybody - concerning the daily lives of everybody knowingly or unknowingly.
Everybody has both been an offender and been on the receiving end as well to be blatantly honest and I don't feel there is any person usually who can claim otherwise.
When we are the offenders we take our parents, siblings, friends, spouse, close relatives or other people near and dear to us for granted and don't pay attention to their opinions or will over a particular issue or many issues (if it goes on like that unchallenged). We may do it to somebody we don't know even and it can be the vendor at the street corner or somebody not of that importance, whom many of us don't hold in high esteem, until someone of them shocks us with the level of their wisdom!
When we are taken for granted, then it could be your boss in the office, who can seriously believe that you'd work for the pittance he is paying under constraint of options or under duress, it could be your parents who takes call on your career or important decisions in life like marriage for example without even consulting you, it can be something similar with your friends or other relatives. It can be even on the online world where some people might think they have a right to make you act in any which way they desire just because they are paying you!
Admit it or oppose it, the term is all around us! So what is your story or opinion in this matter, if you'd like to share certainly with all of us?
And finally, I won't take any views for granted!