Your examples seem pretty modern and not that similar to what the emotion evolved for, which is likely more about things like injury, illness, loss of allies, failed hunts, etc., where compensatory action by allies to literally care for you (in the sense of “taking care of”) is quite immediately survival-relevant.
In this context, alerting your allies that you need extra help and/or backup to deal with your setback or loss of capacity seems quite valuable. Your examples don’t really require material support from friends to help you survive, but in the ancestral environment, having people able to provide assistance could easily be a life or death difference even in the very short term, depending on the loss.
Your examples seem pretty modern and not that similar to what the emotion evolved for, which is likely more about things like injury, illness, loss of allies, failed hunts, etc., where compensatory action by allies to literally care for you (in the sense of “taking care of”) is quite immediately survival-relevant.
In this context, alerting your allies that you need extra help and/or backup to deal with your setback or loss of capacity seems quite valuable. Your examples don’t really require material support from friends to help you survive, but in the ancestral environment, having people able to provide assistance could easily be a life or death difference even in the very short term, depending on the loss.