Ultimately this kind of mechanism is what creates a society of hereditary classe...

QuercusMax · 2026-08-12T19:38:23

Private education for the wealthy is a cancer on society - having even rich kids go to the same schools as everyone else is an equalizing effect.

I don't see how capitalism help this at all, in fact it seems to make it much worse.

mrhottakes · 2026-08-12T19:23:57

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bit-anarchist · 2026-08-12T22:32:02

Comparing with the alternatives, capitalism did already enable open competition and undermined nepotism.

Also, "more money = better than" is not a capitalist thing. It's just the nature of money being a physical replacement for social credits.

defrost · 2026-08-12T22:38:13

and US cronyism, did that enable competition and undermine Don Jr ?

You write as if there is only one smoothly homogeneous "Capitalism" and that it's actually practiced.

bit-anarchist · 2026-08-12T23:28:31

> You write as if there is only one smoothly homogeneous "Capitalism" and that it's actually practiced.

You'd be mistaken, as that better describes OP. All I mentioned is that the push for open competition began in capitalism (or, more appropriately, liberal capitalism) undermining the prior more nepotism-based system of dominance.

Of course, there are more intricacies but, given that OP's comment was shallow, I didn't feel the need of going deep into the many forms of what people may call "capitalism". We can get into it if you'd like.