Could one be, instead, appreciative of and grateful to the considered, generous decision of that individual? how do you think he would respond to someone expressing one kind of feeling or the other?

I assume that he became a multibillionaire in part by not troubling himself with the opinions of nobodies.

Why do you think that I'm not? Lol

Would it be any less saddening to depend on the whim of an uneducated, innumerate and manipulable mob?

Better would be the considered preferences of an educated numerated mobs.