My Mother Refused to Pay My 13-Year-Old for Six Weeks of Work. Forty-Eight Hours Later, the Labor Board Knocked.

two thousand.”

I choked. “Only?”

“Two thousand and something,” she added quickly. “But it’s really good. All my favorite artists online say you need a decent machine if you’re going to do serious art. The one I have keeps freezing every time I open my drawing software. Yesterday it shut down and I lost three hours of work.”

Her voice wobbled on that last continue reading …