The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that increased freedom in business can lead to negative consequences for society, necessitating more control mechanisms like prisons.
Eduardo Galeano's quote underscores the paradox of business freedom, indicating that as businesses operate with fewer restrictions, the potential for exploitation and social unrest grows. This means that while businesses may thrive, the societal consequences of their actions—such as crime and inequality—might create a need for more imprisonment to manage the fallout. It illustrates the tension between free enterprise and social responsibility.
In practice
Discussing the implications of corporate regulations in a business ethics seminar.
Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.
It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.
We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.
History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'
Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.
In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Where it gets weird is that nowadays there are millions of people on this earth who call themselves followers of Jesus, but their lives look nothing like His, and they're not obeying the things that He called them to do.
People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.
I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.
''Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone and get cross at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a stomach-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink beer, and have a bad conscience... How terrible.
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