he ought to find it more profitable to play by the rules, such rules that favor him with more new coins than everyone else combined than to undermine the system and the validity of his
own wealth."
The assumptions in the white paper are that there's only one chain in the world and it has the freedom to act in self-interest.
The moment Core won by locking the chain with the most power in a way that leaves it to asphyxiate in the long run it reached a dead end.
