Her philosophy is sound and so are her principles of free market economy, while, perhaps, her plot is idealized and naive and some characters too sophisticated to be true.)
Edit: I have tried to explain it better in a separate comment.
Hint: this is a fiction based on philosophy, not a philosophic treatise based on fiction.
This is a form of calling names, which the HN guidelines ask you not to do: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Your comment would be much better with that sentence taken out.
Rand is a relic and has largely been repudiated by far superior scholars (such as Murray N. Rothbard) who have since made most of her work deprecated.
Just because you are comfortable on middle-upper class doesn't mean you can't be objective about this things. That some kids are born into wealthy families and some are born in sub-Saharan Africa and forced to mine minerals for the former's iPad until they are 15 and keel over is undeniably wrong. But it's what arises from capitalism.
Equal rights for by definition inequal beings is what smart guys have tried to put into constitutions.