I like to do border runs and quite enjoy them. Otherwise I never would get out of this place.
I have the choice.
Do I apply for a Retirement Visa but can't work.
Do I apply for an investment visa, still can't work.
I have a company but don't need 4 employees to run it.
But I like to work, for my own company. I need to make an income in order to make profit, pay shareholders and taxes. Does not mean I have to physically work for my company.
So, my company offers a services to a Thai Family business which in turn employs me and gets my WP sorted, and I pay my tax accordingly and I'm still legal. There is no universal way to comply to the law.
Lucky, throughout the years, whenever the government changed the law, they didn't apply it retrospectively.
Example, if you obtained your retirement visa 20 years ago, you will not need to comply to the new 60'000 / 800'000 THB rule. Minimum investment has gone up, doesn't mean all businesses who started before have now to reinvest to comply to minimum investment for their visas. Same applies to some extend to other visas, work permits and laws.