Can someone make a long-term career at online poker?

[Locohombre]

I have taken some totally bs bad beats online. Also, the quality of play is either too terrible to read or the players are too good to read. I can read people in real games after a while. I am right about 3/4 of the time when I do that. I don't see how you can really read people online accurately though. On top of that, even if you do, you will get the bad beat reguardless. You have to be very lucky to make an entire living from poker. Most of the guys on the WSOP and WPT were either extremely rich or totally broke before and during play anyway.