One consider an economy in the limit of very high labour productivity. That is very important since productivity rose 50 times for period from 1800 to 2000 and grows farther. In this limit we have to face problems with zero or nearly zero wages due to exess of labour supply over labour demand.
20% exess is enough for falling wage to approximatly 0.
If the exess is still not too high one can use stimulative policy to artifitially produce more employment. Then the additional employment is consedered as a public good to subsidise it production.
Still there may be a situation when there exist no possible regulation to achive nearely full employment (whith less then 20% unemployment) and unfortunatly the goverment should use direct distribution of income to the vast magority of even potentially active population.