what are the common types;categories of lifestyles - and what do they tell us about how our society is organized

very early thoughts:

there are a LOT of "common lifestyles" or common characteristics of lifestyles that we're familiar with.

here's an attempt at a simple classification:

high-tech / low-tech
hyperconnected / local
fast-paced / slow
planned / spontaneous

high-cost / low-cost
transient / stationary
individual / communitarian
centralized / decentralized

types of lifestyles:
digital nomad, volunteering, sailboat...

how can we classify the different types/stages of people and how can that help us clarify it?

on type: laggard / innovator (distribution curve), archetype (models & frameworks/alchemy/12 archetypes) ...
on stage: life stage (both age and moment/priority), consciousness development stage.

how some other people think about it:

vanessa andreotti points out the systemic erasing of indigenous ways of being and lifestyle possibilities outside of the house of modernity.

roote refers to "ambitious frontier people".
possibility management refers as to a similar group as "edgewalkers".
hanzi freinacht evidences a growing number of people, also in this group, as members of the precariat.

it's also part of the common imaginary the views of:
a) artists waiting tables to make ends meet while they strive for a career in art.
b) the entrepreneur bootstrapping their business in a garage/family basement.