An economy guaranteed against failure is an economy ensured against success. All too often today men want to start with a guaranteed success, not with risks. As a result, we have in increasing evidence fraudulent successes, i.e., insider trading, artificially inflated stocks, and much much more. The goal in all these dishonest activities is success without risk. The risk-free life, however, is a deadly illusion.
Freedom always involves risks.
Eliminate the risks of freedom and you thereby establish slavery and defeat. If the risks of freedom are banned, the risks of tyranny are ensured. Slave- labor camps represent a higher risk in the U.S.S.R. than do the risks in a free society. But this is not all. The Soviet military intelligence, GRU, for example, has a high risk factor to ensure performance.