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Lætitia Vitaud: "Today, we even count the number of hours of sleep or sport we need to 'perform'"

2022-06-17T03:46:05.978Z


Performance and competitiveness have invaded our lives. Until sometimes, making us sick and causing work-related suffering. In her essay Ending productivity*, Lætitia Vitaud counter-attacks and opens up more human, more virtuous horizons.


Miss Figaro.

– Productivity, on which our economic system is based, is in your view an outdated concept.

That's to say ?


Laetitia Vitaud.

Yes, like GDP – gross domestic product – productivity seems to me to have become an obsolete unit of measurement.

It is a way of counting our economy, which ignores or mismeasures a large part of what is important: love, the bond with others, well-being, beauty, goodness, spirituality... in saying this, I am aware that I am part of a criticism that has lasted for half a century.

But the three years that we have just gone through, from black series to disaster scenarios, to which nuclear fear is now added, have brought up many questions related to work, its organization and its definition,

Many professions also escape the criteria of profitability.


Yes, especially those relating to education, health, the environment, the construction of the social fabric...

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