That’s not the most obvious take away imo. I’d say it’s obvious that the strippers were doing a fair bit of tax evasion, but having known a few strippers, a successful stripper would still be making good money even with meeting all their tax obligations. The issue the clubs now face is that they can’t properly cover the risks of paying salaries to employees who’s revenue is entirely tip based. It’s really just a completely predictable outcome of a government trying to protect people from their own decisions with regulation. As a contractor myself I dread the day the government finally gets around to saving me from the working arrangement that I have benefitted so greatly from adopting.