It should be noted that even where library fines for overdue materials have been dropped, the library may still have a time limit on borrowed materials, after which non-returned materials are automatically declared "lost." At that point the library may attach a recovery cost to the patron's record. Depends on the library. Of course, if the parents got their child/children a card then took out materials and "lost" it themselves before the kid(s) ever had a chance to, the kid(s) may still be locked out of borrowing materials.

I think you did a disservice to The Baffler article by not including this part of their comments on Malesic's book: "Malesic is attentive to the workplace pressures that push women and racial minorities to burn out, and his discussion of how disability can lead us to rethink our governing fictions about work—drawing on the disabled artist Sunny Taylor’s superb essay “The Right Not To Work”—is stimulating. But class hardly enters his analysis, beyond a brief discussion of how blue-collar jobs now demand a “white-collar service ethic” (no longer allowing for disengagement), and an interview with an avid cyclist who lost a finger working at a tire manufacturer. He does not say how prevalent burnout is among working-class people; the burnouts in this book are mostly doctors and college professors."