The Bible’s first war already shows winners taking all spoils.

Evidence

The biblical narrative reports that numerous kings, including the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah, who are apparently on the losing side, “made war,” casu milbama (14:1). Here, in an all too familiar situation today, it is already the case that the winner takes all, the winner took all: And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 319