From the article: > The new moral is that numbers, taken as self-explanatory truths by the public and the press, can in fact be the woefully distorted products

From the article: > The new moral is that numbers, taken as self-explanatory truths by the public and the press, can in fact be the woefully distorted products of a broken accounting system. So it appears you're just in agreement with the OP that the accounting system is broken, while also being the exact same sort of victim of misunderstanding that the broken accounting fosters.