Modern law is pretty much what happens when people let themselves be fooled by a smart psychopath.

"Murder is not allowed."

"Well, I didn't 'murder' that guy. I paid someone else to do it, so they're guilty and not me."

What should have happened is it's the same thing and the guy answers for it accordingly. Instead, people got fooled by a sufficiently plausible argument. And then we started the infinite loop of specifying every single tiny thing separately, ending with a set of laws that only professional lawyers after years of training can read and comprehend (still not always).

Only a handful of people stopped to think about teaching at least some basics of this insane law to people, e.g., as a subject in school. But other than that it's, of course: spend every second of your life learning what's allowed and what's not, or pay for your ignorance. And don't worry, you'll still get screwed over by a billionaire with 50 full-time lawyers.