Are They Not Won Over by the Gifts?

According to spinoza, there's always some physical, natural necessity that has wound you up in the position that you're in. And so unless you're a aware of that necessity, consciously aware of it, but in an affirmational relationship to it,  you cannot really engage in a free, sort of, un you know, a grubbing sort of relationship with other people. He says gratitude mutually exhibited by people who are governed by blind desire is more in the nature of a bargain or inducement than gratitude. "The free person shows a steadfast spirit in that they refuse to be corrupted gift to their own hurt or to that of societys"