Ciao, Steemit!
Since hearing about this project, I must confess that I've been extremely enthusiastic about the future potential of such a network! So I'd like to extend my hand in introduction to the community, with perhaps a hug and a kiss on a cheek to some of the more familiar people already here.
My name is Robert A. Pabich, although casually I go by everything from Rob to Bobby depending on how we became acquainted.
As a teenager in the 1990s, when the internet still had that anarchistic cyberpunk feel to it — I always managed to find different ways to make a bit of income on the web. Those certainly were interesting times. Lots of money was made by a lot of people in an all-out free–for–all. This early experience gave me lots of insight into marketing, technology, and taught me some valuable business lessons. At 24, after years of various side projects, I started my first “official” small business, which I've since wound down in favor of pursuing other interests and opportunities. Yet these early tastes of freedom would eventually prove instrumental in shaping my adult life and future career interests.
Growing up in America from a European background, I've always had a rather expanded worldview thanks to my family — with an accompanying interest in history, an inquisitive attitude about the world, and how people lived in other parts of globe. With my parents and family growing up in a communist country rebuilding after World War II, and the stories and experiences I've heard throughout my youth, you can imagine why I have a very strong aversion to anything even remotely anti-capitalist.
Nearly a decade ago, I developed an interest in international real estate sales and marketing; which eventually set me down a path of comprehending broader strategies related to global financial planning, foreign investing, and global diversification. Naturally, when one follows this course — they become familiar with specifics related to banking abroad, conducting international financial transactions, legal research, acquiring residencies, citizenships, and passports, asset protection, and company formation in jurisdictions around the world.
My approach has continuously evolved from a perspective of achieving maximum individual liberty, and grounded in Austrian-esque praxeological thinking — comprehending the intricacies of the world, markets, economies, anticipating future trends, and strategically analyzing the direction of the world.
Following the pursuit of pure capitalism, one can't help but take an interest in precious metals, resources, recycling, trade, mining, and hard assets. I've always adhered to the viewpoint that real tangible assets, and the resources that make civilization possible, are the only genuine wealth in the world. It's the most basic primordial state of capitalism, and always will be for the conceivable future. Added to that, is the intrinsic wealth of the wisdom passed down to you and the knowledge in your head. This of course, is not to disregard the value that cryptocurrencies can serve as a digital medium of exchange within global commerce.
I've been an avid internet user since the 1990s, and had an interest in computers even before then as a young kid. With a light tech background and experience in technology, IT, graphics design, and web development — discovering Bitcoin, witnessing blockchain technology evolve, and seeing the growth of cryptocurrencies just explode over recent years has been incredibly thrilling.
In pursuit of privacy, security, and personal protection, I also take an interest in everything from encryption, cryptography, and security — to being a defender of the right to self-defense and the right to own firearms. If it's a cause for freedom, I'm likely on board in some way!
I tend to have a broad range of random knowledge on variety of topics, in addition to which has been mentioned above. Things like automotive, light industry, trades, construction, and the essential “blue collar” nitty-gritty of the physical world. I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty to create something or improve my situation, or to help a friend in need. I can make a case for why you should use synthetic motor oil in your car or buy gold, give you tips on how to remodel your bathroom, and tell you the company formation process in Singapore, over a pint of craft beer while enjoying some good music in the background.
I'm a very open networker, and I feel very fortunate and thankful for all the interesting people I've had the chance to meet and connect with; and I look forward to meeting many more! Over the next few months, I'll be rolling a few new projects projects. Without going into great detail, it's not entirely hard to guess the basics from what's been written above.
HOW DID I GET HERE?
Like many other individuals, I went down the rabbit hole of Ron Paul, libertarianism, End the Fed, the Austrian School, Anarcho-Capitalism, and so forth that's probably all-too familiar for many, and doesn't require further elaboration. I've read and absorbed the endless literature, books, videos, and information by a wide-range of scholars, authors, and influencers. Whilst the knowledge and philosophy is a crucial cornerstone, the next logical step for me was to make something of this “esoteric” knowledge and apply it to business, use it for personal benefit, and help other like-minded people. The only thing more important than having knowledge, is applying it.
I've always considered myself to be a very individualistic and entrepreneurial-minded person since a young age. Yet often times in my life, I felt like the protagonist of an Ayn Rand novel — trapped in the cogs of an insurmountable government bureaucracy — living in a matrix of laws, rules, and regulations that grind ruthlessly to crush individual empowerment, in the name of some abstract misguided collectivist absurdity. So it was enlightening, to say the least, when I started reading many viewpoints and perspectives related to personal liberty, and trying to understand the world from the perspective of free-markets and the Austrian School of Economics.
To me, the Austrian School has always been about exploring the instincts, feelings, observations, and evidence of what most people should naturally view as the axiomatic and universal truth to the world. The understanding of how markets work, and how we interact, and how polluted the purity of such a system has become.
I have high hopes for Steemit, especially in light of the heavy-handed censorship, bans, attacks on privacy, and suspensions people continuously face on major social networks like Facebook and Twitter — which is something I hope to elaborate on in my future posts!
PARTING WORDS
I suppose this suffices as a suitable introduction to the community. To elaborate on all my interests, hobbies, and pleasures in life would require an autobiography even more driveling than what I've written here. This perhaps might be the most extensive bio I've ever written on any website!
I hope my future contributions to the community will be appreciated. It's my aim to try and bring some content and personal research I've done on a wide range of topics, ranging from investing in foreign real estate, company formation in different countries, acquiring second citizenships – along with current events, and geopolitical analysis of the ever-changing world, the ongoing terrorism risks, and issues like the present migrant crisis in Europe.
Stay tuned! I'll be publishing some content over the next few days and very much look forward to becoming a contributor to the Steemit community!
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