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.
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