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How? They'd be doing extra compute work for no reason (validating already valid transactions), and storing extra data (lots of hashes) for no reason, so it can only make infra costs more expensive. Plus the added complexity meaning you have to hire an extra team just to understand it.
That speculative world as shitty as it is, is the only proven use case of the technology, if you take that away then blockchains are even less useful