How is Rape of the Lock a social satire?

I love this poem because Pope pokes fun at uppercrust
London society via epic form (he uses heroic couplets, which makes the poem even more
satirical because there isn't a hero to be found).

First,
Pope tries to deflate classic heroic discourse using a technique called the
heroi-comical (now called the mock-heroic). He
was the first to do this, so it's especially funny that the poem is based on a
true story of hair purloining and a real rift
between two gentrified families.  His main focus was to show how society, through an
uber-focus on colonialism, was morphing into
trivialities.

Pope spends a fair amount of time teasing the
symbols of social status. Nobody actually does anything other than
put makeup on and drink coffee--those are the battles. He spends some time discussing
Belinda's daily routine, which is equally unimportant. He illustrates the frivolity and
stupidity of the colonial enterprise. What are the tortoise shell and ivory combs being
used for? Makeup and hair combs for Belinda! Even military valor and imperialism are
sullied. Pope teases the classical gods (there are no gods and goddesses, merely gnomes)
and mocks aristocratic religion.

Equally, Pope's plot
dramatizes the race between male/female sexes as a 'war' in which men are trying to
possess women (in the salon as a result of a cut piece of hair). I pulled the quote
below from an excellent e-notes study guide:

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"A common thread in much twentieth-century
criticism of The Rape of the Lock has acknowledged the way in which a deep appreciation
for English high society meshes with Pope's critique of its
weaknesses"

In the end, the
poem forces readers to look at the vacuous lives people were leading. The poem
could have been an abysmal failure but ended up (A) rejoining the
two slighted families and (B) becoming one of Pope's most brilliant masterpieces. By his
focus on maintaining the epic form, he delivers a silly--yet compelling--reminder of how
societal values were decomposing.