Rousseau's insight is important here. The basis for being a social unit is not primarily material well being but social well-being. Affection or companionship is the basis of the family. The notion that they are like or in the same image is important. I suspect that God dislikes the creation of communities as economic units.
Cities dominate over their hinterland and exploit the agrarian society.
The tower of Babel story epitomizes this tendency. In building the ziggurat, the people try to be like god, to do without god, to establish their own peace. Aristotle can help us here. He sees the city as the ideal political unit because of its self sufficiency. Self-sufficiency is not a biblical virtue.