Sadly, my experience led me to believe that most people are more willing to work for someone telling them what to do than they are for themselves.
I might argue that most people don’t really know how to handle autonomy. We’re all trained to follow orders and probably have to be trained on how to work otherwise. It’s a huge culture shock.
I’m often not sure at what point my authority/autonomy ends and my boss’ begins. And we have a clean top-down structure.