How to pronounce “high and dry” in English

No I never want to see you again.Left you hopeless high and dry yeah >>Multiple singers: I moved on.Female singer: Because I thought that I was strong.

Does it mean that we need to make money at the cost of everybody who contributes to the success of the business?And only those who are contributing financially end up benefiting, and all others are left high and dry?I came across this book by the Dean of Harvard College, Professor Khurana, which said, from higher aims to hired hands, and captured the devolution of management

because in the neighborhoods where the winners live, in the neighborhoods where perhaps many of us live, we benefit from a system that ring fences our own propertytaxes for our own schools, and that leaves schools in other parts of this country high and dry.And so when the winners step into social change, they change change.