Academic journals are the culprits. As a publicly funded researcher you have no choice but to pay to have work published because you won't get peer reviewed in the "standard" way. No one will care about your publication because no peer review and it will have no "impact score" which is gatekept by the same academic journals charging for publishing. Oh, and you have to do free peer review for journals. Oh, and you have to pay again to get the latest journal issue with your publication in it.

Don't pay and don't do free work for journals then you lose your job.