I'd suggest anti-social self-interest is rather easier to discover - e.g. totally open transaction records would be a practical requirement. (For whatever form of records were being kept.)

Totally open transaction records does not help you determine whether an investment that generates a positive operating surplus but negative profit was made because the investor expected it to be a profitable investment or because he expected to be able to hold society hostage to the sunk cost.

The issue then becomes symmetrical oversight with feedback loops that encourage open participation and prevent authoritarian and/or narcissistic damage to the common good.

You want to propose one of those?

And punishment doesn't apply - revenge is pointless,

On the contrary, in an iterated prisoner's dilemma, for example, revenge is absolutely required to create a credible disincentive to self-serving mendacity.

There are insane results in game theory, but that's not one of them.

- Jake

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