So here is the funny thing, with most research you’re expected to get the funding, which includes wages, before you even begin the research.

Meaning you’re not paying to let other people make money off your research, you’re just paying for services needed for fulfilling your end of the bargain which you had previously agreed upon from the very beginning.

The cool part of all of this is that in many places when you get public funding the research can be made available to others for free after it’s peer reviewed.

Honestly, if you could trust individuals in every industry with this much credit, then it is how the entire world would work. But you can’t trust everyone that much.