I always felt he had so much more to give, with me and to so many.
Absolutely.
For someone with such a privileged background, he always joked "I was brought up in the back of a Bentley", he was certainly one of the most generous, caring people I have ever known. Always willing to stand up for what was right, help people any way he could. I could never have been with him otherwise.
But he did have his attitudes and misconceptions, of course. "It's all about breeding," after all, is what the privileged like to brag about. They don't mention that most of that is inherited, not earned...
I did have to set him straight on occasion. Once, we were flying off somewhere, I don't remember where, and we were in Business Class as usual, he said to me "Business Class is what pays for these flights, not the people in the back". I had to laugh, and made him a little sum:
Out of the 12 seats in Business, there are 3 occupied. Let's say we paid $1500 each, so that's $4500.
Let's say they paid maybe $400 in Economy, with almost ALL of the roughly 200 seats taken, so that would be a total of $80,000.
So, I said, whoever taught you to believe that it is the rich that pay for everything (and keep the economy going), think again. It's usually 'the masses' that pay and the rich just cream off everything they can get their hands on, usually taking advantage, if not outright abusing, their position, to enrich themselves further.
He was a sweetheart, and I miss him dearly.
