I read this book. My solution, which I sent in a letter to the editor of the paper which panned it, was to suggest everyone get a 12 year chit to go to public school. After grade school say grade 6 they could leave but come back anytime of their choosing, as long as they passed and did not disrupt the class. Each teacher could decide what disruption was.
My solution for minimum wages was to exempt those below 18 who could also be paid in cash without taxes on their pay.
Grass cutting would stop being a Hispanic monopoly.
Your focus on the “law” in such matters in amusing.
I have a true story for you.
A good friend of mine worked for the IRS for many years. He a very sharp accounting type and his boss let him pick clients to audit because of his amazing collection rate.
Then my friend decided to really “go for it”.
He showed up at town and city halls and pulled out all the building permits for the previous year. On the building permits were the trades for the work done, the name and address of the contractor, and the estimated amounts for the cost.
He then sorted the data by contractor and compared the dollars to the contractor’s tax return for that year.
What he found, of course, is that the majority of most contractor’s work was not reported to the IRS. He then started auditing a bunch of them—and he was nailing them to the wall.
It was a total slaughter.
It took a few months, but finally the contractors contacted their local trade association who in turn contacted their lobbyists in DC.
A few months later my friend was called into his bosses office.
He was told to stop auditing all contractors immediately.
He was also demoted and removed to a function where he couldn’t cause any trouble.
Eventually he quit in disgust.
We live in a kleptocracy—the laws only apply to those who don’t have the clout to ignore them.