I get your point and can empathise with your position, mostly because I'm an academic and have to deal with a little misnomer called, "peer review", which should be renamed, "vicious no-talent idiots without the energy or ideas to get published will now take a massive dump all over the research you spent years doing". Oddly enough proving them wrong is a major reason why I even bother to continue writing, so it all works out in the end if you channel all that rage into something positive.

So? He's a CEO, not a professor. His inability to use words in the correct context says nothing at all about his ability to successfully manage a large company. THAT's what he gets paid for. That's why he makes a lot of money. He wasn't employed for his TV interview skills, he's in charge of a well-known business and if he screws up, a lot of people will lose their job. That is an enormous amount of responsibility for a person to have, and you have no business demanding he get paid less because he can't use words you can. If you want compensation for your vocabulary, get into a business where vocabulary actually matters.

Op, you are so definitely not alone!

I totally agree. If they're going to be a public figure the least they can do is not make a fool of themselves by trying to sound more intelligent...

Do what you love and love what you do, live your life around the pay grade that earns you and you will find the greatest source of your happiness at that point. If you are so much smarter than your pay grade, use those smarts to move up in life to a pay grade where you can be happy. Just remember, if someone has something you lack, this doesn't make them a happier person.

I think that in a way it shows that he is just like everyone else and misuses a word every once in a while and makes a fool of him self just like everyone else does too.

Apparently, to #90, the ability to communicate effectively is not a skill necessary for a CEO. The position only asks that you guide an entire organization. You don't need words for that, right?

He doesn't need the vocabulary of a professor or a genius. Pretty sure just the basics are good enough for him to run a company efficiently.

I'm just graduating high school and I even know basic grammar and language.... And they say the next generation is brain dead due to texting and internet shorthand ....

You have added a new word to my vocabulary and I thank you for that.

Yeah, this whole thing sounds kind of douchey. "I know something you don't so why should you make more money than me?" Is a shitty attitude to have because there's many different kinds of intelligence and knowledge. I know people who are really intelligent academically, but put them in the real world and their skills are minimal. I'm not even talking about trades, I mean like people skills, knowing about the world in general, and understanding how people all have their merit and that being smarter than them in one field doesn't mean you're smarter than them in everything or better than them.

No one ever said you had to know vocabulary in order to know how to successfully run an enormous business. Different kinds of intelligence, people.