Totally agree. But imho it cannot be fixed by modders without making the game ludicrously unrealistic like for example TES Oblivion, where you're able to buy a shiny new armor set for a price of several apples. Obviously, in post-war post-apocalyptic world food would cost as much as weapons and...
Runs perfectly on OS X GOG Fallout (with sfall and everything). For Mac users: you need to enable DirectX 9 mode in the hi_res config and then you should be able to run the game from the wine console (wineskin>advanced>tools, just use falloutw.exe from Fallout Fixt subfolder).
To run it using...