That is how I seek to live my life. Admittedly, however, I am looking for an academic post or postdoc position since I can see an increasing shift of the scientific literature into subscription only ejournals. While my former college, UCL, allows me to use its library, I cannot use UCL subscription to these ejournals. Trivially, much scholarship and science is finding and fitting together jigsaw puzzle pieces. No one should put having a job before putting themselves in a position to find them and so advance knowledge and better the lives of ordinary people.
Russian scientists get no pay for months, yet they still seek knowledge.
Only if enough scholars and scientists do this and so put themselves in the position to find and fit 'jigsaw puzzle pieces' will knowledge in many areas advance rather than stagnate. Upon that much human welfare in the long run will depend.