Hrm. . .hrm. . .2030. . .it's been said that Jesus Christ officially started the Missionary part of The Plan when He was thirty years old and three years after that the Death and Resurection. . .and since the AD Year started with Jesus' birth. . .
All I know my mom was able to buy a used four barrel mint condition Superbee and her parents a 1/4-1/2 acre of land for her parents to retire on because they were too old to work their farm back in the late 1960s-very early 1970s for under $5000 while being able to keep up with her bills and still have plenty left over to have a bit of a social life. And all of that was during her time as an unmarried single woman.
Granted her job was reading blueprints and running an artificial diamond tipped drill at a Sylvania plant which no doubt paid a lot more than a McDonald's cash register but still. The point is that there was a time when even a 'minimum wage job' still could let people afford quite a bit.
