Care to expand and debate on a thought experiment of your choosing? Ideology is the fundamental issue.
Sure sure, not what the data shows, but of course the standard should be adjusted to the condtions of the country attempting it. Choose which ever wealth level, country, culture or block you'd like as your example. If it's ideology, as I content, the proof will still be staring us back in the face.
Correct. Capitalism doesn't work on magic. It develops over time, correction after correction. It's chaotic not orderly. I don't expect any different for socialism, but it's pattern has and will always be spend big today suffer bigger tomorrow not the incremental slow build we find with capitalism.
Again though, pick whichever conditions you'd like it will always end the same way: greater suffering due to a shrinking total wealth as a population's processing power is bypassed to an arbitrary central club of do gooders, who will likely begin to horde resources and power, then collapse via internal competitive pressures and their own infighting(reaction to dire scarcity).