Yes, socio-economic status. I think being seen to afford it is the coping strategy here, not so much doing the thing as the thing itself is highly unlikely to be something else than a placebo. It's all curtain, no wizard. The French youth fishing urban waters may be much more real in effect than the high end stuff. One is escapist, the other is pretending to be. Also the assumption that sanity is a mask to maintain above a roiling sea of insanity is an odd comparison here wrt urban life. It makes the individual insane (or probably driven there) vs the insanity of systems.

This one makes sense to me. Mitigating symptoms of life style choices, rather than addressing those choices. At the lower socio-economic end because you don't have many options (smoking as only affordable relaxation e.g.), and at the higher end because the choices are what yields the higher socio-economic status, and the mitigation signals that status, and adds to it, helps define it, an aesthetic choice in Bourdieu's fashion (distinction theory / [[Goede smaak is klassebewustzijn 20220212075212]]. Still individual coping rather than facing the systemic factors causing them or organising [[Networked Agency 20160818213155]] in the face of it.

'uncertainty coping strategies' equal living your life I suppose, in the face of the 'strains of everyday reality' since the groups in caves. What is different here wrt Igor and Johannes' work experience and patterns. Just Urbanism (then how is this diff from 18th century?) The complexity of those strains? The inability to withdraw from strains created by others through industrial work practices / social media algo inducement? The sense of looming doom wrt ecocollapse, financial crash etc, systemic threats iw and no agency to individually address some of that? Or is it merely the high end market catering to it, exploiting the stress rather than solving the stressors? What is Igo saying here?