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.

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 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> 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.