I got you:

https://youtu.be/y4hieHY0jHM?si=x9z9Wr0UwtfFW-YX

This sounds a bit like Psychohistory from the Foundation series

Those two episodes still gave us the character of Christopher Pike which gave us Strange New Worlds so I will mourn this man.

And other lies we tell ourselves.

Ooh good call! I was misremembering the price!

This is just a shittier capsule hotel like they have in Japan. At least there they don’t charge you an arm and a leg for it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel

Didn’t it really start to take over during Covid over here? All the ‘essential workers’ needed to be tipped because Uber and all the other delivery services didn’t want to pay their employees a living wage. Also all the restaurants turned to tipping for takeout as well since there was no dine in and here we are. Post lockdown and still doing this ‘goodwill’ tipping to line pockets.