This is going to shock you but, I don't want to see loot become the main source of revinue or gear. The reason is simple. Paper currency is rare. Sorry choombas but finding a loose Euro Bucks isn't a common thing, most law abiding people use cred sticks, and credit cards. These either are pin locked or require a gene signature to use. Criminals might have blue backs lieing around but not in large quantities unless its a major operation.
Lets also assume that they got to the point in the future that we got guns that wont fire unless encodeded to your palm, also different guns use different ammo. Trust me there is more than just one kind of 9mm bullet. I'm not just talking about AP rounds, and Hollow Points. Just cause you have a 9mm and his gun is 9mm doesn't mean that his bullets will fit into your gun. Also most guns these days are ceaseless. So that means you cant fire cased rounds with your gun.
Second don't bother trying to loot armor off of bodies, its more than likely comprimised, so will do little to save you. Also armor needs to be fitted to work correctly.
Let me ask you a question, are you really going to just pump your self up with some one else's drugs? No unless you are a junkie. Remember Corp goons see a doctor who then tailors their dosage to goons physiology, not yours. You don't know for certain what augs he's packing. You might take a sample to hand over to a meditech for study and maybe to make it for your self.
What about the other guys cybernetics. Are you a fucking lunatic. Do you have time to extract a implant, with out damaging it. Sorry again like the drugs its keyed to a specific person and oh yeah grafted on them. Yeah leave the other guys metal alone, but if your impressed take a picture.
So what about other stuff. Well most of the stuff you can sell is either illegal or requires the right paper work. So lets say you bust up a drug deal, and you come across a shipment of Black Lace (its a hard drug think like coccaine or heroin) and it has nothing to do with your current job. Now do you bust it up and take it for your self or leave it be. Now taking it will puss off some one. But leaving it alone will have it end up on the street, and you wont make any money or get any street cred. So you take. Now this is a sci fi setting with some grounds in reality, so no magic pants but you do know a fixer or two. So you can either dispose of it by calling a contact in the police (hopefully one with some moral fiber, unless he has contacts with a criminal family you want to get close to ahh going off on a tangent) filling you with all sorts of fuzzies and getting you giri with the police, or do you call your fixer friend to move it filling your pockets with ill gained cash pissing off a few groups in the under world and putting drugs on the street (remember you not only stole the drugs but you made a profit off of it, and probably moved into some one else's turf, unless you sold it at whole sale), or do you turn it over to the ripper docs in the combat zone to turn that poison into medical supplies, again you gain giri with one group while pissing off others, what's the right choice.
Now here is the important bit to remember this is not D&D or some fantasy adventure. There are no dragons with troves of treasure to loot. Not unless its a Demon series program running some nasty sub routines or a Black ICE you might want to avoid. Most of your money is going to come from jobs, whether is jockying a AV4 for
Trauma Team, enforrcing for the local tong, or running errands for a Corp. The loot you want is info. Its a tool, like the drugs, guns, money and cyberware. You can sell info or use it to further your own goals. So nab that info whether by taking recordings, snatching a briefcase or braving a datafort with your trusty deck, in the neon lit future the loot you can put in your pocket is info. Any thing else is really either too big to carry or not worht it. Info is small. But big at the same time.
