I recently stumbled on the back story of the 1848 revolution in Paris and realized this idea has been already tried out, even if it was a kind of side effect :)
In short:
1. Implemented a "right to work", everybody should have a work at a 2 francs a day
2. Parisian flocked to the state company so they paid anybody they could not give work to 1.5 francs a day for the "right to idle". Something like half the Parisians got paid like this.
3. People started to hear about this from outside the city and started to move to Paris.
4. As you can predict, it ended up as a collapse and one of the cause of this revolution.
In short: 1. Implemented a "right to work", everybody should have a work at a 2 francs a day 2. Parisian flocked to the state company so they paid anybody they could not give work to 1.5 francs a day for the "right to idle". Something like half the Parisians got paid like this. 3. People started to hear about this from outside the city and started to move to Paris. 4. As you can predict, it ended up as a collapse and one of the cause of this revolution.
Source Wikipedia or this abstract: https://books.google.com/books?id=rlhDAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA866&ots...