QUOTE : Value' and 'productivity' cannot be expressed in objective figures, even if we pretend the opposite... The targets of our performance-driven society are no less absurd than the five-year plans of the former U.S.S.R. To found our political system on production figures is to turn the good life into a spreadsheet... Governing by numbers is the last resort of a country that no longer knows what it wants, a country with no vision of utopia.