Individual willingness to be dependent is only conditionally rewarded.

Evidence

This proposition, which is self-evident and about society, needs to be distinguished from another claim which is about individuals, and is true only under special circumstances. This is the claim that no individual agent can hope to enter cooperative ventures if he will not take a dependent position, or, again, if he usually defects when in a nondependent position. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 170

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with the doctor’s wife’s exceptionalism in Blindness — she is the sole agent willing to take dependent positions knowing no one can return the favor or observe her defection. — connects to: Dependence primes increase rated dependence only for female, not male, targets. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 221