Sure, for an individual, what you say is exactly the correct approach. But for society, does it benefit us to pay people to work on scraping websites more than

Sure, for an individual, what you say is exactly the correct approach. But for society, does it benefit us to pay people to work on scraping websites more than on OSS infrastructure? (One argument is yes because that's how the money flows, but why?) How do we as society fund OSS infrastructure and prevent people who would be good at it from leaving to seek money?