I would characterize the USA as having a mixed economy where production is freely done, though after gauntlet of many busybodies has to be first run through. Then there is a layer of thieves who who threaten in order to be given a cut of the production. The citizens vote for those who will continue and increase the attempt to make production into an altruistic endeavor due to their religious and philosophical beliefs. I recall that Rand had said that the two worst emotions are pity and envy, the judgment that someone is unworthy of living and that one should have the unearned. Those are the emotions of the majority of citizens whom I deal with and that drive most everything in the USA. The few women that I knew who admired Objectivism have all died. I never met an admirer, other than the guy who told me about Atlas Shrugged back in 1965, who was a male. I do not see Capitalism getting stronger for a long, long, long time, perhaps after hitting bottom like a drunk.