Your inability to distinguish doesn't make them mental pretzel work. It means you haven't taken the time to investigate them properly.
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Distinguish what? You just threw out two terms and declared them different. You defined nothing. I gave a definition (Rand) to support my claim that there's no functional difference in reality.
The pretzel work is refusing to deal with Marx and instead trying to use a different term as a form of evasion. The term is just fine. People are simply unwilling to state that they are capitalists because they value long term human freedom and flourishing.
"I'm a free market kind of guy..."
I'm a proud capitalist and won't hide from Marx by avoiding his terms. It's weak and I'm calling it out. Do whatever you want, obviously, but that doesn't mean I haven't investigated the topic.