Ok, I hear you, the balance is a must here and compromise on both sides. As you said in the original post, maybe buying 1 Bitcoin or even 0.5 of a Bitcoin could have been a nice compromise. Hopefully the next opportunity that you unearth will be given fairer consideration.
I wonder if people donate to him - he started a revolution by proving trade was possible :)
Hopefully he held onto some of it and is at least a Millionaire today. I'm sure he does receive donations every now anf then for innovation he helped to kickstart.