Comment by TeMPOraL

This is exactly how it plays out with humans too, except 1) we can develop ways to sharpen our teeth, and 2) we can organize opposition to individuals who, according to the majority, behave unfairly. The resulting dynamics are obviously much more complicated than with lions, but the phenomenon is there.

I mean, imagine that the lion went on to catch more antelope than it needs to eat, and started to sell the surplus in exchange for cleaning its beard or some other services. The other lions then figure out this is not a bad strategy, and start doing their best to also capture a surplus to trade - perhaps going as far as inventing tricks and tools that let them hunt even more efficiently than the original lion with sharper teeth. This continues for a while, until antelope population crashes and most of the lions starve.

Survivors, should they be smart enough, pass on the story of those events - aptly calling it the Tragedy of Commons. Perhaps a couple generations later, when a lion with sharper teeth starts setting up antelope carcass trade again, they wisely band together to form a lion government, and dispense hunting quotas.

Thus is the story of civilization and technology, in a nutshell.