The paper offers a reflection on human vulnerability within business contexts, drawing on two works of art by Alberto Burri and Sidival Fila, which provide a symbolic vocabulary of wound and regeneration. This perspective finds a symbolic root in the experience of Francesco d'Assisi: his encounter with the leper marks a transformation of perception, in which what was once seen as discard becomes a revelation of our shared humanity. Here emerges an ontology of proximity, where care takes shape as a form of justice. The theoretical framework is further developed through Martha Nussbaum's capabilities approach: authentic development does not coincide merely with economic growth, but with the concrete expansion of people's real opportunities to live a life worthy of human dignity. In this light, business economics cannot be reduced to a purely performative and selective logic; rather, it becomes a space in which unexpressed or wounded capabilities are recognized and reactivated, restoring autonomy, participation, and integration. The shift from an economy that produces human waste to one oriented toward flourishing therefore entails an ontological transformation before it is a productive one: it requires recognizing that persons and material reality are not exhausted by their function or utility, but hold a potential for meaning that emerges in and through relationships. The paper thus calls for a pedagogy of perception: learning to see value where business organizations risk seeing only inefficiency or rejection. Flourishing does not arise from the denial of fragility, but from its transfiguration into relationship, responsibility, and shared care.