Cubes or Tokens

Depends what kind of resources. For example, the Mare Nostrum game that was recently on Kickstarter uses a wide variety of resources, so tokens are kinda better for that.

Meanwhile, if you have just 2-3-4 of them, I think wooden cubes are more awesome. You have listed very good reasons. They really are elegant, but depends on what you use them for. For example, they are awesome for sci-fi resources like fuel, crystals, etc, but might not work well in other context.

The only value I see in tokens over cubes is when you need a specific picture on the token or, as I mentioned, you are to use them for many different resources.

Hope that helps you a bit! If you list further info, I might be more on-point.

P.S. Also, plastic cubes are the worst. Never.

To me, it looks like you should do 1/2-1/2. The cubes should be humans in various conditions and the cardboard chits for resources.

Workers: Black
Sick People: Purple
Angry People: Red

The rest should be custom chits. It just seems the best, imo.

I am a fan of cubes, especially for drawing from a bag, however with the list you have given I would probably choose to go with Tokens instead if only for ease of remembering what resource is which (visual representation vs only color).

If it were only 3-4 resources I would totally go the cube route as it's a lot easier to remember what fewer colors represent.

It's easier to draw blind from a bag

You can easily spill tokens from a bowl while blindly reaching into a bowl

You can't avoid looking at the content of a bowl and so always know the distribution (this may be good or bad, depends on context)

It's easier to include a bag in a box than fit a bowl in. This means it's easier for the player to transport the game and play it at clubs.

And it might sound a little silly, but even requiring the player to add their own bowl for playing the game would irk me a little. I prefer games where everything I need is in the box.

If you had one less resource (i.e. 6), you could have special dice with a different resource on each side - you roll them, then place the die on the appropriate place on the board. Probably expensive to make the custom dice, though. And you have seven resources, not 6.

Nobody has yet mentioned the possibility of shaped wooden tokens (like in Shem Phillips' North Sea games) - you could use different coloured meeples for the different kinds of people, and wooden cutout shapes for the other ones. As long as all the cutouts had somewhat irregular edges, the players wouldn't necessarily know which they were drawing.