The Free Marke is the supperior economic system

Well my communist friend, I believe I have had enough time to formulate an argument. My stance ( as stated ) is that a Free Market Economy functions is the superior ( as in, its of outstanding quality) economic system. First round is opening argument, and acceptance. 1)- True Free Market Capitalism, has been given a very strong correlation with Human Development, and general quality of life. A study recently conducted by the Heritage foundation found that economies that were rated as "free" had an average HDI of 0.91, "mostly free" economies scored 0.85, and "repressed" scored a 0.56. The same study also found that the freer the economy , the more money the average person had, thus finding a negative link between Economic freedom, and Poverty. Statistics, as we all know, do not prove disprove, they only show what their there. However the fact that at a certain point correlation becomes " Strong correlation" and Strong correlation becomes " Probably has something to do with it" , with the average freedom score of economies rising while the number of people who lived on an average of $1 a day " adjusted for inflation of course" fell. You have your heroes, and I have mine. One of mine Milton Friedman, had a comment on this very Phenomenon. "The well being of ordinary people has been the main thing that has been improved by economic progress and economic growth and development" 2)- The opposite of what Marx predicted is coming true. My Marxism is a little rusty, but if I am not mistaken, Marx said that wages would continue on a downward trend until the only solution was revolution. This has proven to be largely false. As I already said, less people in the world are living on a dollar a day than ever before, which is unsurprising if you consider my first point. Wages have been, as a general rule, increasing. Of course during recessions these go down some, but that's like calling the tiny drops of temperature in parts of north America proof that global warming is untrue. 3)- Environment. A study conducted over the course of ten years has found a negative link between air pollution and economic freedom, and no link between economic freedom and Co2 emissions. This is probably due to the fact that Governments often get in bed with certain companion order to sell their produces. This is often known as crony capitalism or corporatism. Free markets, the people chose what product they want, and states, if they exist at all, chose the best product. A factor in what makes an objectively good product is its effect on the environment. Small wonder why countries with low regulations on solar energy tend to use more of it. 4)- Free Markets tend to come with a freer people. Its not secret that in Republics people have somewhat of an effect on a Nation's economic policy, and studies found that more democratic nations tend to have freer economies. Whether or not this is a case of people wanting capitalism, or more economically free people seeing the value in democracy, shouldn't matter. In addition to this free markets tend to have less restrictive laws, which allows for more markets to set up it, and for the people to live their lives free from external forces that dictate what they can and cannot do with themselves. Those are my arguments. I hope I prove a challenge to you, and I hope that your counter arguments are as strong as I expect them to be.