Can a super-narcisstic and infinitely selfish person be a good computer programmer/mathematician?

The basic problem is that capitalism repeatedly generates "business cycles" of boom & recession or depression. Then capitalist governments -- for the last 50-80 years, anyway -- go into debt in hopes of fixing the recessions, and in this way they generate bigger & bigger deficits. As most professional economists will agree, the "depression" phase of a capitalist business cycle is usually marked by "surplus" or "excess" production and productive capacity.

That is, the economy goes into the toilet partly because the US economy has the ability to produce far more value in the way of goods & services than the average American consumer can afford to buy. When producers are throwing more goods & services onto the market than consumers can afford to pay for, of course, some goods & services remain unsold. The producers then take a hit to their profits because of this, and to save money and restore profitability, the producers start closing down factories and/or stores & laying off workers.

Then, because private business has been laying off workers to stay profitable in times of recession, the recession often becomes worse. People who've just lost their jobs obviously can't buy very much, so "consumer demand" in the economy falls even further than before, and sometimes this leads to even more business losses & even more layoffs. Deficit financing -- leading to a burgeoning national debt in the long run -- is what capitalist governments often do to jolt markets out of recession.

Since the British economist JM Keynes basically invented the idea in the 1920s, American governments have repeatedly gone into debt in times of deep recession / depression in order to inject new spending power into the US markets. This debt-fueled government spending does in fact pose certain dangers, as the conservatives point out. It's not really a good thing in the long run.

But in the short run, when capitalist markets are sort of constipated and "free market" forces can't generate enough consumer demand & enough new jobs, "Keynsian" fiscal policies based on debt financing can jump-start economic growth, permit spending on new goods that leads to the creation of new jobs, and otherwise save capitalism from semi-permanent stagnation. That's why GOP as well as Democratic presidents both have a tendency to engage in debt-financed government spending in times of crisis. Admittedly, the Republican politicians (Reagan, GW Bush) usually prefer to run the government into debt by fighting wars, authorizing unneeded military spending, building new prisons, and/or providing tax subsidies to corporations -- what some critics call "military Keynsianism."

The more liberal kind of Democrat, on the other hand, prefers to use "Keynsian" deficit spending for social programs to help the poor & unfortunate. We can call this "liberal Keynsianism." (Ted Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s, etc.) Meanwhile, many middle-of-the-road Democrats and Republicans prefer to use Keynsian deficit financing to fund "pork barrel" spending ... the government creating jobs and profits for private contractors through the financing of new highways, new Corps of Engineers dam projects, the dredging and improvement of ports, the building of new airports, the building of new schools, or whatever.

Since it was the Democrats over the past 60 years who were in charge...I kind of figure they own this debt...not the American People... Since most of the Trillions went to everyone around the World but the American taxpayer...I say send the bill to all current and past Members who voted for the money to be spent without the consent of the American People...We payed our taxes they are the ones who spent beyond the revenues collected.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.