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“How do we have freedom if we don’t have options to choose?”

Floyd Marinescu, one of the founding members of CEOs for Basic Income, asked the audience at TEDxWindsor this question Saturday during his talk at the Chrysler Theatre.

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CEOs for Basic Income is a group of 120 Canadian chief executive officers, business owners and controlling shareholders who support a universal basic income.

Marinescu, CEO of C4Media which provides software development news and events for software engineers, began by sharing his own stories about growing up in a home with domestic violence.

“I could see how financial pressures were triggers and also enabling the violence,” said Marinescu, one of a dozen speakers at the TEDxWindsor event to discuss the theme of The Systems of Everything. “I think in general these things (basic income) can even power dynamics.”

Marinescu said a universal basic income can provide people with more options — choices on whether to leave a domestic situation or a toxic work environment.