The capital gains tax breaks spawned major sectors of the hedge fund industry by shifting from revenue to capital gains. Without those pro investment, pro risk taking and risk spreading, pro liquidity, pro capital formation and availability capital gains rates, many of us couldn't do what we do for a living. We would have to earn our way in a traditional wage for labor arrangement, which provide benefit to an employer, but subtracts my capital, liquidity from the game.
Multiply that by trillions, and yes, many things will collapse because its now gone, stuck earning T-bill rates of return.
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.