[tetrep]

I think this is similar to looking at the budget of the US government and asking why they don't simply pay off all the potential criminals such that most crime in the US is then mitigated.

[callalex]

That’s not equivalent at all. Paying off criminals creates an incentive for there to be more criminals. Paying more security researchers does not incentivize people writing buggy C code to write even buggier C code.

[KirillPanov]

Your analogy is all messed up: paying off criminals doesn't make houses harder to break into.

[cuu508]

Raising compensation creates an incentive for there to be more bug hunters.