I would rather them feel guilty than feel entitled to the fruits of others' labor.

What fruits? What labor? My point is that most people's labor bears no actual fruit.

Some people are certainly employed in pointless jobs, but the idea that this is true for the majority is doubtful.

And for those people who's labor is pointless, the solution is to have more meaningful work, not idleness.

I can think of no more pointless form of labor that to toil away for whatever bureaucracy that would be responsible for administering this harebrained scheme.