Before i moved away I was making 16$/hr moving truck tires around a warehouse manually and with forklift. I couldn't afford a car payment and was paying rent at 650/month for a bedroom. I had no health insurance. No car. I could've but it cut too deep into my salary.

I'm not sure what you mean but my calculations suggest approx 33$/hr(63,360 before taxes), not sure how that bracket is taxed, to afford a used car payment, mortgage or ridiculous rent and separate insurances not connected to work for health, home and auto, internet and some savings for hobbies and 3 months vacation and other leave with appropriate salary coverage.

I'm probably wrong and I know this is the lower figure of what people need and should be making IMO as minimum wage to keep up a savings and afford things that should be basic rights and paid via taxing conglomerates, industries and various tolls, and large entities and people within our states and countries to make sure our workers and infrastructure is maintained as a whole.

It's absolutely mind boggling to me that working for entities and industries involved with moving people doesn't have the resources in place to take care of the people that work for them and everyone else they move. I mean transit, state departments, various manufacturers, warehouses, trucking, transportation and Medical.

Nobody needs fucking billions or millions. It should be reinvested into the people that built that wealth not a singular person or fucking stocks. Trickledown my ass.