{"id":221639,"date":"2020-04-06T05:41:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T12:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=221639"},"modified":"2020-04-06T05:48:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T12:48:25","slug":"existential-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/06\/existential-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Existential Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Assuming that we will now live in a <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/30\/post-monetary-society\/\">post-monetary society<\/a>, where money doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really do us much, then begs the question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Why work?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">To exist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1180\" height=\"885\" data-attachment-id=\"221643\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/003e453a-71f8-4cce-a823-98b37ee150a5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/003E453A-71F8-4CCE-A823-98B37EE150A5.jpeg?fit=2224%2C1668&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2224,1668\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"003E453A-71F8-4CCE-A823-98B37EE150A5\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/003E453A-71F8-4CCE-A823-98B37EE150A5.jpeg?fit=2224%2C1668&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/003E453A-71F8-4CCE-A823-98B37EE150A5.jpeg?resize=1180%2C885&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-221643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/003E453A-71F8-4CCE-A823-98B37EE150A5.jpeg?w=2224&amp;ssl=1 2224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/003E453A-71F8-4CCE-A823-98B37EE150A5.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/003E453A-71F8-4CCE-A823-98B37EE150A5.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/003E453A-71F8-4CCE-A823-98B37EE150A5.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/003E453A-71F8-4CCE-A823-98B37EE150A5.jpeg?resize=720%2C540&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1180px) 100vw, 1180px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exist \u00e2\u20ac\u201d ex+<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/sisto#Latin\">sisto<\/a>. From the proto-Indo-European \u00e2\u20ac\u0153st\u00c3\u00adsteh\u00e2\u201a\u201ati\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/steh\u00e2\u201a\u201a-\">steh2<\/a>-\u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u201d which literally means to stand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My gist is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>To exist is to stand somewhere in embodied reality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a human, and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re currently standing somewhere \u00e2\u20ac\u201d you exist!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Funny thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re sitting and not standing somewhere, you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t metaphorically \u00e2\u20ac\u0153exist\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Asserting your existence <\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assuming that we will now live in a post-monetary society, where money doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really do us much, then begs the question: Why work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/003E453A-71F8-4CCE-A823-98B37EE150A5.jpeg?fit=2224%2C1668&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221639"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221651,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221639\/revisions\/221651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}