A pilot scheme offering some artists €300-plus a month for three years is being made permanent. But should something so fundamental be run like a lottery? A pilot scheme offering some artists €300-plus a month for three years is being made permanent. But should something so fundamental be run like a lottery? I won the lottery. Out of around 8,000 artists, my name was randomly chosen to be one of the 2,000 who the Irish government would pay a basic income. This pilot scheme was a test of whether