Comment Re: More Republican corporate welfare (Score 1) 248
Resource constrained and unconstrained technology development will necessarily have different development paths.
Having less has a forcing function leading to more innovative solutions, but not always, and its a bit if a crap shoot. Having more leads to different optimums, see any car made in the 50ies. Beautiful, but not exactly fuel sippers. That said, with a few scarce resources with unique properties ( helium, PGMs, fissile elements ) its kinda obvious than having more is better.