The greatest poverty reducer in history? Free markets.

Nope! That's an easily measurable metric and it's communism and it's not even close.

The vast majority of evidence for the "free markets eliminate poverty" uses cherry-picked data from specific overthrown dictatorships, and then very intentionally missatributtes china's gains to the general trend of global liberalization. With it being the largest country on earth, it makes it real easy to skew the data.

It also needs to be said that poverty rate was a thing created towards the end of the cold war to discredit communism. The fact is does the opposite is extra damning.

If you have quantifiable metrics that show otherwise that don't have the issues above feel free to share!