I think you’re pretty severely mistaken about bullshit jobs.
You said
At the start of this post we mentioned “bullshit jobs” as a major piece of evidence that standard “theory of the firm” models of organization size don’t really seem to capture reality. What does the dominance-status model have to say about bullshit jobs?
That link has lots of argument against Graeber’s particular models and methodology, but doesn’t actually seem to argue that much against bullshit jobs as a concept. Indeed, it explicitly endorses to some extent the sort of model used in this post in various places (like e.g. explicitly calling out corporate empire-building as a thing which actually happens). For instance, this example:
The fake job in question is basically a contribution to that glamour: a receptionist who doesn’t have much work to do. But this could end up being a money-saving proposition if the company is able to attract workers, and pay them less, by treating the presence of an assistant as a perk.
I think you’re pretty severely mistaken about bullshit jobs. You said
But there are many counter examples of this not being a real concept. See here for many of them: https://www.thediff.co/archive/bullshit-jobs-is-a-terrible-curiosity-killing-concept/
That link has lots of argument against Graeber’s particular models and methodology, but doesn’t actually seem to argue that much against bullshit jobs as a concept. Indeed, it explicitly endorses to some extent the sort of model used in this post in various places (like e.g. explicitly calling out corporate empire-building as a thing which actually happens). For instance, this example: