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The more apt analogy is between pre-electric and post-electric lighting (~1850 to 1920), when efficiency of light generation rapidly increased, restabilizing at ~222x as much light for the same unit of human labor. [0]

Across that period, first world countries massively increased their demand for light.

Further efficiency increases only matter to individual choices if they take a use case from {economically impossible} to {economically possible}.

I'd offer that by the 1920s, most goings-on in first world urban environments were no longer price constrained in terms of their light usage.

[0] See table 1.4, p21 https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c6064/c6064.pdf

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