We saw live music every night, wandering from venue to venue on Frenchman Street, we ate beignets and poboys and gumbo. We went on a Cemetery Tour and, on our final day, we decided that we would visit a nearby plantation, the Whitney Plantation. Read Liam Hogan’s excellent research for more information), the Whitney tour was fascinating, moving, devastating, and confronting. Sickened after reading an essay by Jia Tolentino in which she described the notoriously hellish work environments at Amazon warehouses, I pledged to stop using the service. We want to be conscientious consumers, objectors even, but we still want our lives to be easy.

Source: Irish Examiner December 06, 2019 21:33 UTC