I agree with your assessment, and came to realize these things when I did my first internship in a company, as my university requires this to graduate (that was

I agree with your assessment, and came to realize these things when I did my first internship in a company, as my university requires this to graduate (that was almost 10 years ago now). At the time, I felt quite depressed by it. The person who was my boss's boss would regularly say completely technically incompetent things, and yet here she was running a dev team and making tons of money too. As I've moved forward in my career, I've slowly come to feel better about things. It might take a few painful failures, but over time you become good at spotting the people who are all talk and no skills/knowledge, and you know to avoid them. Conversely, you learn how to spot the people who know what they're talking about, and know to accept their job offer instead of the employer who gave you a higher offer but gave you a bad impression during the interviews. And because you are (hopefully) getting better at what you're doing, you have more options, and more leeway to say no. It's almost empowering to tell yourself that if these idiots can make bank, then all you have to do is learn their ways and bend them to your advantage. Good luck!