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.
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
All human suffering concerns each human being.
It has always irked me as improper that there are still so many people for whom the sky is no more than a mass of random points of light. I do not see why we should recognize a house, a tree, or a flower here below and not, for example, the red Arcturus up there in the heavens as it hangs from its constellation Bootes, like a basket hanging from a balloon.
they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs.
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