Capital is resources plus labor. The resources require labor to make them available; for example, if one wants metal, one must exert labor and energy to mine the ore, refine and mold it into usable form, then there is the need to transport the finished product to the end user. In every case labor must be used, and labor is tied closely to energy.
If cheap energy is available and labor plentiful and allowed to keep its remuneration...you could make anything.
Or as an alternative, and even if you don't like Abraham Lincoln, I do like the sentiment behind the following quote:
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much higher consideration. Working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are more numerous. To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as much as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.
Anyway something to think about
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