That to me is the justification of Sci-Hub. How did a company get to control product paid for by tax dollars to resell it? On another note, I do believe inform

That to me is the justification of Sci-Hub. How did a company get to control product paid for by tax dollars to resell it? On another note, I do believe information should be free. Where I start to vacillate is with who pays to extract, create or discover the information? For instance, I know gold is a physical object, but a corollary of saying gold should be free, and yet who's work or money is put up to mine it from the earth? Some private researcher spends 15 years of their life, and discovers or creates something after investing their time, their money. Without a means to capitalize on it, what is the incentive to put in the hard work and money? And before you say, it is never a sole researcher and their money, extrapolate up to a small shop, mid-sized company, and big company. The gist still holds.