[Texan5]

There was a really hilarious story on the subject of stipend/living wage and the ridiculous unintended consequences of such a thing-”Riders of the Purple Wage”, but that may or may not be the one you are thinking of...

[Steely Tom]

I don’t think that’s it.

When the stipend/living wage kicks in, it’s only a matter of time before its brain-dead recipients are mobilized as a killing army against the productive segment of society.

The only thing that will protect us from a Pol Pot type of outcome is the RKBA.

[Steely Tom]

The internet has expanded, I guess, and I was able to find the SF story I referenced above. It's called "Dead End," and was written by Norman Spinrad. Here is a synopsis

Willy Carson, a Master Draftsman, is out of work. But despite his desperate looking there is no chance of another job. And, there is no need: the government supplies $175 (a Basic Citizen Stipend) a week, free housing, unlimited drugs. Because lower skilled jobs are increasingly mechanized the only available jobs are further up the ladder and Carson cannot rise up the ladder. And having run out of idiotic hobbies Carson is closed to despair.

The entire US contains one remaining Wilderness Area, perhaps there among the trees he will feel real pain. The fears of mechanization extrapolated to hyperbolic levels… A genuinely effective allegory.