I don't disparage the rich but sometimes it seems that followers of Ayn Rand do disparage the rest of us who don't happen fit the ideal of an Atlas. There have to be Indians to follow the chiefs, and a healthy economy requires broad based prosperity.
The actual dynamic is that there are individuals, such as myself, that follow the more capable individual.
Rand was an atheist, and her having drunk from the poisoned chalice of social Darwinism is apparent in her writing. She needs a big dab of Christian charity in her worldview, and its lack hits one in the eye -- and btw probably cost her a lot of influence with people who aren't coldly indifferent to the life journeys of others. It's a trait she unfortunately shares with Nazis. It showed up in her personal life as well, in social and sexual behavior that was frequently morally unacceptable.