There's a book, 'Savages' by Joe Kane, about the Huaorani tribe of Ecuador. The Huaorani were considerably disrupted by the activities of the oil companies, which were polluting their land. The Huao were aware of this, and lobbied the government and journalists to stop it, etc. But nevertheless if there was a food giveaway, or work, in an oil company compound, they would nevertheless take the food or work, allowing themselves to become dependent on them.

In the book this explained as being part of their culture, since on a day to day basis the hunter who brought in food that day gained prestige, and since the oil companies could easily source cheap food, the Huao partly deferred to them even though they knew that the oil companies acted against their interests.

At the time I thought that western people would not fall for such a thing, but maybe it's a more general pattern of human behavior