Welcome. A very good thoughtful introduction.
There is an easy mistake to make when summarizing Rand- to say that money (financial selfishness) is everything. But in Atlas Shrugged we have the strong example of Dagny who would not steal and recoiled at taking the business from a rival when the government/industry cartel destroyed his company, and Hank Rearden who would not sell his business even at the unstated but high price government offered. Recall D'Anconia's powerful speech- it is not the amount of money a man has that defines him, it is how he earned it.

Welcome, and thanks for posting. First, I want to say, keep reading the book and maybe you will feel inclined to re-check some of your premises.
"When “the common good” of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals. It is tacitly assumed, in such cases, that “the common good” means “the good of the majority” as against the minority or the individual. Observe the significant fact that that assumption is tacit: even the most collectivized mentalities seem to sense the impossibility of justifying it morally. But “the good of the majority,” too, is only a pretense and a delusion: since, in fact, the violation of an individual’s rights means the abrogation of all rights, it delivers the helpless majority into the power of any gang that proclaims itself to be “the voice of society” and proceeds to rule by means of physical force, until deposed by another gang employing the same means" AR, Capitalism The Unknown Ideal

Wonderfully done..............and in the middle of the night. I can relate!

Well done. Thanks for contributing.