First and foremost, I want to clarify I'm only venting, not asking for money. I completely understand a post like this can seem really scammy, but I just have nowhere else I'm comfortable venting_
I'm working a full time job at well above federal minimum wage (I make $15/h at 40 hours/week). And I still don't have enough to cover everything. Out of sheer desperation, I made a GoFundMe and it's honestly humiliating. I feel like a loser and a leech. Like I should be doing better financially. I'm too ashamed to share it with family and friends, so frankly it's not going to make any money, either. I mostly just made it to ease my anxiety. It's not working, FYI.
I just hate that in a country that claims to be a pinnacle of opportunities (U.S., as if anyone need help guessing the obvious answer), I can work 40 hours a week at over double federal minimum wage and still can't scratch out a living for myself. I don't even have the money to move out of the country, or I'd gladly find elsewhere to live. I'm just sick of the constant fear, the constant guilt, and the constant humiliation. Why do I not deserve to live in dignity? So Bezos can have a trillion dollar company? So Musk can play space man and run away to Mars?