The more negative-sum players could be worse off if their targets become better off as a result of the change. Assuming that punishment is the backbone of these players' preference, and boost in power to do stuff with the allotted matter doesn't compensate the negative effect of their intended victims having a better life. I don't believe any human is like that.

I'm not skeptical about divergence per se, of course preferences of different people are going to be very different. I'm skeptical about distinctly unusual aspects being present in any given person's formal preference, when that person professes that alleged unusual aspect of their preference. That is, my position is that the divergence within human universals is something inevitable, but divergence from the human universals is almost impossible.