Now I wanna go back and read up on implant restrictions, that's a good point. Although I do seem to remember skimming some ruleset or another that described implants being pricey and increasingly stressful just to add onto an already-stuffed morph, much less all the other potential costs involved in acquiring them. That ruleset itself may have been followed by a sliding scale of "just how available this kind of tech is in your game," though, so! Go figure. You're definitely correct, in that it's even mentioned how much value has shifted to favor the intangible and irreproduceable ever more. Consider, though, that along with presentation, in many cases there's also just plain quality that can factor in. Take food, as you mentioned: Makers (EP, page 324) are nanotech appliances that can make food and drink from just about any organic material that will keep you and a couple others going, but supposedly the best of them can at most manage a kind of sorry-looking sludge that maybe reaches the heights of "occasionally a little tasty." Fresh ingredients and actual cooking facilities would probably be things any restaurant would have a good few legs up on. Also, while nanotech may have looser restrictions in the MC, I'd assume they aren't just handing out top-of-the-line machines in the streets. There's probably still some sort of cost involved for acquiring blueprints, too, at least for some stuff. Add in backups, insurance, subscriptions of all kinds, and so on. As you may have been getting at, services are probably the more common kind of moneymaker, though there's still stuff that a layman probably won't really be able to make on their own without at least some help. (Hmm. Come to think of it, I don't know what's specifically stopping you from building your own spacecraft [e: on Venus] aside from a ridiculously huge investment of time putting together bits and pieces (nanofabricating can take awhile, remember), accumulation of necessary expertise, licensing fees of every hue and flavor, SPACE to rent, resources that aren't so easy to fab (fuel?) (And therefore stuff you might need to get imported *shudder*) and so on and so on... but some dudes with actual Big Kid industrial infrastructure and economies of scale on their side can probably get it done for you orders of magnitude quicker. You'd just gotta pay.) (Out your nose, I presume.)

Showing you how to build your own damn starship; capitalists hate them! Now I want to look up Autonomist Alliance general opinion of the morning stars again.