re: Explanation for weak recovery--redistribution did it

The moral impetus for a moral Government, is to take care (subsidize) it's weakest citizenry. The result is that the populous becomes larger in numbers...but weaker as a whole.

It would be a 'Darwinian Economy' (survival and prosperity of the fittest, which cultivates strength, disregarding morality), if society ignored the morality. But it will be societally detrimental - perhaps suicidal - if the weak are given equal power in a Democratic society.

The only solution is to create QUALIFERS of strength (moral/spiritual and practical) as a pre-requisite for subsidization of weak individuals. That would not be any more immoral (taking their freedom through Lawful coercion) than a weak Democratic voting block, voting Socialist and confiscating the freedom/productivity of their fellow strong citizenry.

Qualifiers. It'll be that, or a crash...and Mother Nature pruning out the dead limbs. Wise governance would be preferable. Oh well.