Some indenture terms, especially the earlier ones (and, most regrettably, many of the early sign-ons who jumped to take them), were basically just debt slavery, and set up to get the workers in the red so, extra cash absent, they'd have to keep on indenturing themselves to pay off the last bit they owe. After the Fall, though, that a significant share of the remaining population is made up by infugees, who have a higher chance of being familiar with indenture, helps to ensure a bit more attention is paid to those kinds of practices these days- it's more difficult legally and for public relations reasons to get away with that kind of screwage (if undoubtedly still possible, other factors depending). Thus, if one gets lucky and signs on with a corps that either actually has a conscience or just really, really doesn't want to be on any infugee or indenture activist group's shitlist (the latter at the very least being slightly more common these days), getting indentured might actually result in terms that leave them better off at the end of it than they were when they signed on. Sort of obvious, but something to keep in mind. Further, prejudice against infomorphs is still something to watch out for, despite (or maybe also a bit because of?) the enormous number of infugees. It's social (terk yer jerrrrbs, Can We Trust Them To Not Be TITANs Or Whatever, oh god I daresay they're everywhere and also rather impolite, etc), as well as political- there are of course many places where infomorphs can be anything from afforded slightly lesser rights than someone sleeved in a biomorph, to requiring somebody to "supervise" and vouch for them, to being considered scarcely more than property that might be able to testify in court, to being completely illegal and summarily deleted. Getting a biomorph or even a synth may in a good number of cases be seen as a perfectly understandable practical necessity to escape those problems. Also, though it all may still be cheaper than the basic necessities that other kinds of morphs need to live, at the least in many places, even the very basics of existing as an infomorph aren't quite free. You still need to pay for access to a cheap server, and/or a device with mesh access, and/or at the least space in a data rack with all the others in infolife poverty. (You might be able to reside entirely on the local public mesh without paying anything to anyone, but I gathered from Transhuman that this is kinda like asking to be charged with vagrancy or some other "you can't 'sleep' here" charge, or whatever the equivalent is for infomorphs. Not easy unless your interfacing!stealth skill is pretty slick.) And if whatever physical infrastructure you run on gets shut down or destroyed... All of that may contribute to feeling your existence as an infomorph is slightly flimsier than it would be if you just had a good ol' fashioned sack of viscera to lug around. Although I'm quite sure there are also sleeved people out there who do themselves spend as much of their lives as they can in a reality which they have a bit more control over than they do meatspace. As well as infomorphs quite content with where they are.