Is this a roundabout way of trying to associate cryptocurrencies with a prerequisite of trustlessness for everything that uses them?
This is just corporations using permissionless architecture, there have been companies doing this on blockchains for almost 10 years. I used to own shares of SatoshiDice for the daily dividends it paid onchain from 2012-2013.
The market enforces the behavior. A cartel that pays nice dividends will have a better share price and deeper secondary market, allowing them and their employees to always sell shares for more money. A corporation that doesnt perform well for shareholders doesnt have the same market.
I think I’m the one specifically drawing no distinction between criminal groups and liquidity, because they are unrelated concepts.
Then all the token holders have an interest in preventing non-tokenized transactions.
This is all ridiculous (and evil of course) but it has a certain internally consistent logic to it.
Why would they adopt a new system given they've got such a good grip on current one?
I think people are conflating which crypto is used for what here lol, but thats predictable. There would be two cryptocurrencies involved: the share, and the cash-surrogate as profits.
Forget about the problems, think solutions and it will be easier to iterate towards and perceive a system that works.
In case this isn't obvious, no, there's no trustless way to make an entity distribute its real world profits to holders of a crypto token. We're talking about mafias here, groups which specialize in hiding money streams. Only enforcement from a real world judiciary system can enforce dividend distribution.