Also, in the past, farm labor wages were high enough to fund an endless road trip including gasoline, cheap hotels, restaurant food etc. To such an extent that

Also, in the past, farm labor wages were high enough to fund an endless road trip including gasoline, cheap hotels, restaurant food etc. To such an extent that it is how Jack Kerouac and friends paid for the journey in "On the Road" without thinking about it. The same suppression applies to all wages from lab technician to programer from the twenty-first century to the fourteenth.