[bacchusracine]

What do you have against people "more towards local business"?

That's basically what is intended. Since people live in a pod, they'll eat out more often so that's more money extracted from them. Gotta keep the economy going, right?

[NegativeLatency]

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not but, plenty of cities (not large American ones) manage to provide affordable housing with private space without people sleeping in pods.