So, I worked for about a decade in the semiconductor manufacturing industry, where we used SPC and mentioned Deming a lot. There were some not nice places to w

So, I worked for about a decade in the semiconductor manufacturing industry, where we used SPC and mentioned Deming a lot. There were some not nice places to work, and they mostly were the ones that used Deming's ideas the least. The system that Deming was counseling companies to replace, was one where you measure results only at the end of the line, and punish/incentivize based on the end result, assuming that the problem is due to the workers, not the system. It doesn't mean that Deming's ideas are infallible, but that's what he was advocating against. If the author had an actual point about Deming's ideas, he never got to it in this essay anyway. It's reasonably well written, but I kept waiting for the part where he finishes his introduction and gets on to his point (to justify the title), and it never happened. I guess that's the "more soon" we are promised at the end?