Wow. You have really misinterpreted Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged. You should either read the book or, if you have, re-read it with understanding. Personally, I think there is a lot of positive things in Atlas Shrugged, and I wouldn’t mind having more of the principles discussed in the world I live in.
A major point that she makes is that the amount you are paid should match the quality of the work, in contradiction to your claim that “human beings were by their very natures lazy, and wouldn’t do anything unless you made it worth their while, and the way you made it worth their while was by giving them [material] rewards. That was the only reason anyone ever did anything.”
There are many situations in the book where characters do something of quality just for the pleasure of doing it well, not for the pay.
And there are plenty of quotes from the book that refer to the quality of the work as an end in itself. Here are some from https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/817219-atlas-shrugged
“There is no such thing as a lousy job — only lousy men who don’t care to do it.”
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
“Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value.”
“There’s nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that.”
““Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live — that productive work is the process by which man’s consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one’s purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one’s values — that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind, and no work is creative if done by a blank who repeats in uncritical stupor a routine he has learned from others — that your work is yours to choose, and the choice is as wide as your mind, that nothing more is possible to you and nothing less is human — that to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions and borrowed time, and to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind’s full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay.”
And on and on.