Iceland got there through serious government intervention in the economy. Last I checked, capitalists HATE that, so they sure didn't get there through capitalism either.

If you're going to dismiss decades of exceptional research as "survivorship bias" without citing a shred of evidence -then you're an idiot.

And to address your other point: absolutely nowhere did I claim that the improvements in gender equality in ANY way made up for ANYTHING at all !
I just acknowledge that they HAPPENED.

That's called being smart-  perhaps we could study how they achieved it - and replicate the results WITHOUT doing the bad stuff.
You can never do that if you deny that the achievements actually happened.

It was the USSR that opened space to exploration - capitalism would never have done so otherwise. It took DECADES of government effort before there to were ANY version of private "profit" in so incredibly valuable an endeavour.
Even today it's mostly government.