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But that doesn't make sense, you compare among peers in development timeframes where you can, as well as size and location. Nordic countries tend to have good safety nets, but they also fund them from imperialism, and they've been developing for a longer period of time. China isn't imperialist, and it's only recently been developing. If you're trying to compare capitalism and socialism as systems, you have to compare their trajectories and where they've come from, not static snapshots.
We're trying to find the best countries right now. You'll never find good comparable enough countries anyway, there's always big meaningful differences that can be argued over endlessly.
Right now there's capitalist countries beating all the socialist ones at what we're talking about. Like said, theoretically at some point they will be best than every capitalist country. It's just not right now.