Non-assholes have selfish motivations that they're not fully aware of. Women choose to date rich/powerful men irrespective of how they got it. People associate with those who managed to win because it benefits them in particular.
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You can simulate it and "(simulated) nature finds a way". I think that normal humans are pretty good at intuitively navigating a lot of these issues (because "social mammal") but bad at articulating descriptively and strategically correct theories (because science is hard).
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we're good at navigating them at scale ~= Dunbar number and under a "fixed pie" assumption where there's no economic growth, because that's a good approximation of most of our evolutionary history.
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