Yes, lots of good earning professional people use psychics and not just poor people. That doesn't mean they're not being exploited.
Core business of psychics is the sad and the desperate. Some happy people whose lives are how they want them to be use Psychics. Those people have a reading every few months and aren't usually too invested in whether predictions come true or not.
That's not where psychics earn their money.
They earn their money from the people who have readings much more frequently, the repeat and loyal customers.
The people that they've convinced of their 'abilities' who think 'oh they read me so well, so they must be real' so they think the predictions will happen. And maybe a small one does which reinforces the belief.
But the predictions they REALLY want to happen haven't. So they keep going back to check that it will. And they're told 'timings are difficult to predict', 'energies can change', 'you want it too much so your energy is blocking it'.
They have a reading each time a timing for a prediction has passed, or each time something happens that suggests the Psychic is wrong. They want the reassurance and they get it.
If it's the same psychic they're going back to, they've already told the Psychic so much information that they've forgotten they said. Then the Psychic says 'well, he was supposed to call you last week like I said but he's scared of his feelings for you, or his wife is manipulating him and it's blocking him but he will come forward in a week at the most'. (Frequent Psychic users are almost always grieving for a lost relationship or involved in affairs or abusive relationships). Then no contact that week so they call again..get more reassurance..wait..nothing happens..call again..
My high earning professional friend has spent 10s of 1000s of pounds over a decade. With 'top rated readers' face to face and on the 'phone. I doubt there are any Psychics with good 'reviews' that she hasn't used. We worked out she spent 5,000 last year alone. She's an intelligent, outwardly confident professional.
She finds one/two/three that are REALLY gifted, uses them for months, realises very little is actually coming true (though convinced at the beginning because tiny predictions come true) so moves on to another one/two/three that's been recommended and the cycle starts again.
Shes 40 and lonely and pays for someone to tell her she'll be in a relationship.
In 10 years Psychics have told her she'd be in a relationship with a man who turned out to be gay (that went on for months), encouraged her to stay in abusive or just shit relationships by telling her he really loves her, is just scared of his feelings etc.
She's made a fool of herself on several occasions because they've told her she'll meet someone with x or y attributes and so when she thinks she does, she calls to say 'could it be him?' gets confirmation and then when they don't make a move after weeks/months like the Psychic told her he would, she gets frustrated with waiting so makes a move on them (because they've convinced her he's interested) and she gets knocked back and feels like an idiot.
Most recently she's been told her ex will return very soon. For the last year now...
He was supposed to be back in August, then by Halloween..then Christmas..her birthday...and so on.
The readers always have an excuse why it isn't happening just yet or just express confusion 'it should have happened, it's still here in the cards, he's still in your energy so I can't tell you it won't happen'.
When she's okay, she might have a reading once a fortnight. When she's in a bad place in can be more frequent and even more than one a day.
She can spend 100s of pounds a month at times.
Literally nothing major that they've predicted has come true. Anything that has come true seems to have been lucky guesses.
I think I could easily make a career out of being a Psychic from learning via her how they do it.