I think you’re doing a lot of unnecessary psychoanalyzing. It seems to me that rich people are into the occult simply because it’s a thoroughly human interest. The rich associate other rich people so that’s who they get together with. “The occult” in the western imagination is when relatively well off white men get together, put on robes and blindfolds, and jerk each other off. But Wicca, and Vodou, and Catholic Folk Magic, and Hoodoo, etc. all qualify as occult as well. Everyone’s into it and they always have been. I don’t see why the basic motivations to practice or seek help from practitioners of the occult would be that different between the rich and the poor.

The only difference is that the rich have the time and resources to devote to that kind of exploration while everyone else doesn’t. And, of course, that’s not a necessary fact of humanity, that’s just a reflection of our particular fucked up society. Pre-capitalist societies had roles for people who were “into the occult” too-- they were just called shamans or priests or healers. And they didn’t have to worry about making rent every month.