"Too much capital and too little labor" are ideal conditions for improving the efficiency of production, even if it is just through professionalization. (Which

"Too much capital and too little labor" are ideal conditions for improving the efficiency of production, even if it is just through professionalization. (Which is itself a form of social innovation, albeit a lower level one.) If innovation can be said to happen in a vacuum it is a spark which needs the proper societal kindling to light a fire.