Because they knew Snow Crash was fiction?

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Rat_Things_(Snow_Crash)

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It's stupid because blockchains don't scale. In most other respects they're quite clever.

> Note to oligarchs: a post-apocalyptic world is no fun. Not even for you in your bunkers.

It's amusing to me that oligarchs don't seem to understand that if the economy goes to hell, their private security forces will just leave (or worse!). What do they think they will pay salaries with? Bitcoin? Do they really think an army of robot dogs is going to protect them?

Here in New Mexico there's a long tradition of flat-roofed adobe house construction; the materials are abundant and it insulates fairly well (by the standards of the 1700s). But the roofs always leak because snow and rain don't immediately run off. Yet even though we now have modern building materials readily available, a lot of faux adobe still gets built especially in wealthy neighborhoods.

We have a saying: "New Mexico is a place where poor people want to live in a modern house with a pitched roof and rich people want to live in mud huts."