Ah this makes total sense. Other day I read how some factories are dumping pollutant chemicals in rivers. But it turned out to be all fine as there was no wrong intentions it just was not economically viable for them to properly dispose waste.

This is more a coordination/incentive/game theory problem than a cost one. If all the companies that use open source libraries contributed resources to pooled audits then individually they'd have to pay far less than each reviewing dependencies on their own. Maybe that could be incentivized by penalizing data breaches caused by negligence and using non-audited code = negligence. But I suspect this would just result in people running some random static analysis tool and calling it a day rather than doing for proper code reviews.