If that were true my companies current strategy of throwing change management consultants at problems rather than programmers wouldn't be half as successful as

If that were true my companies current strategy of throwing change management consultants at problems rather than programmers wouldn't be half as successful as it is. Your windows /linux example is a bad one and i don't think designing /building Linux could ever be classified as a bullshit job. As for real world complexity this applies mainly to physical phenomena (self driving cars for example) and less to bureaucratic business organisational structures which is where most bs jobs also happen to exist.