[ilammy]

> Everyone wanted a piece of the block reward pie, so the arms race was created.

And that's intentional – getting people pursue the goal for their own egoistic reasons, because that's bound to succeed. As a result, they all increase the security and stability of the network whether they want it or not, the only way to not do this is to not participate. If the network were running on a single Raspberry, someone bringing two Raspberries could effectively outcompete the other person on block rewards.

I'm not sure how this can be avoided without fundamental changes in society with regards to competition and adversity.