"Almost $15/hour" is abject poverty, especially in a city where you need to spend hundreds a month just to live in the basement of a slum with two other people. You could make just as much or more in a much cheaper city, and actually get your shit together, but you won't since you've deluded yourself into thinking (among other things) that there's any life worth living in Portland.

And I know you chapo types generally aren't very good with economics, but are you familiar with the concept of the fungibility of money? If you make $1,400 a month and then get, say, $300 in donations, and have a necessary expense total of like $1,200, you should be able to not only get by, but in fact save $200 before any donations. Yet you consistently post about all the drugs you buy and use, and all the takeout and unnecessary shit you buy, and all the random handouts you give to other people, and all the money you willingly give to your loser roommates even though you know they'll blow it on dumb shit.

Which means that if you need hundreds of dollars a month in assistance, you're clearly spending well beyond your means, which means that yes, you are in fact fundraising for drugs, among your many other terrible habits. You may not see it that way, since no addict ever does, but if you spend $100 on meth and then need to beg for $50 for your phone bill, then yes, you are asking these rubes to subsidize your meth purchase. This is not a difficult concept.