You may have spent all your time watching the high rollers and not enough on the other scenes depicting how the rest of everyone lives. At the beginning of the

You may have spent all your time watching the high rollers and not enough on the other scenes depicting how the rest of everyone lives. At the beginning of the episode, how normal people exist in that society is shown. They're fairly contemptuous of it, safe in the understanding that they can simply ignore it and so long as they don't have a utter meltdown, they'll be fine. You don't see ordinary people having meltdowns, and even today the meltdown that landed Lacie in jail can ruin anyone's life. Lacie truly brought it all on herself.