点灯人

一百多年前，城市的街灯要靠人一盏一盏点亮。点灯人黄昏时扛着梯子出门，天亮前再挨个熄灭，这在当时是份正经又体面的职业。后来电灯普及，这个行当就没了，也没听谁怀念过。

2024 年 9 月 23 日，Sam Altman 在他的博客文章 The Intelligence Age 中写道

Many of the jobs we do today would have looked like trifling wastes of time to people a few hundred years ago, but nobody is looking back at the past, wishing they were a lamplighter. If a lamplighter could see the world today, he would think the prosperity all around him was unimaginable. And if we could fast-forward a hundred years from today, the prosperity all around us would feel just as unimaginable.

同一篇文章里还有一句：

I have no fear that we'll run out of things to do (even if they don't look like "real jobs" to us today).