Unlimited access to a natural resource can juice development short term, but look at where that has gotten us with both fossil fuels and Moore's Law - bloated,

Unlimited access to a natural resource can juice development short term, but look at where that has gotten us with both fossil fuels and Moore's Law - bloated, absurdly resource hungry software, and environmental destruction. Of course, we also got new technology and increased average standard of living, but so much waste. Probably "free energy" is necessary to achieve a utopian, post scarcity society, but with all our prior experience with gluts of resource mostly being hoarded and used for profit-seeking, my enthusiasm for the nature of any fusion revolution is more measured than wide eyed.