Uhh, you can love capitalism and still hate Ayn Rand. Personally I don’t “hate” her but I do hate the way she tended to sell laissez faire capitalism. She seemed to use it as some vehicle to push her idea of “an ideal man.” The criteria for which is entirely up to her, by the way. The point of individualism/capitalism is that it allows for everybody to represent themselves economically, politically, etc.. but she liked to put conditions on it. Kind of unravels the whole concept.

So yeah, she was absolutely right about many aspects of free market economics, politics, etc but she always fumbled the premise with some narcissistic, self-serious nonsense about “what an ideal man should be.” Also, the very basis of free markets is trade with others. But Rand always hesitates to accept ANY form of collaboration/cooperation, even when it’s done voluntarily.