alt Hacker NewsWhy would he be helped if he truly doesn't give? He speaks about this a little:
the person being aided can reciprocate with degrees of humility, dependency, gratitude, surprise, trust, delight, relief, and amusement
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You left off this part:
> It takes some practice to enable this exchange when you don’t feel desperate.
Which to me means that he had to fake the reciprocity.