Which begs the question, will this change when my generation is older?
Nothing wrong with outliers, my grandfather started a groundbreaking business before he was 21 and worked for his own investment funds from his early teens. An he was an outlier. An amazing guy, built his first warehouse with castoff boards, he certainly was not getting a bank loan.
Miss Debenham's issues will be moot and she will be fine will do fine far far in the future, 2012 or so.
To add a little spice to your argument, what do you have to say about the "CEO boys club" that is present in today's big business. In other words, the idea that only a select number of the population is worthy and/or qualified to run such empires. If you extrapolate this you'll also find many middle managers / VP / EVP roles that are filled with people who really shouldn't be there but are there because of years of experience. Yet, these are the people that can very justifiably make the critical decisions of the company aside from just the CEO. (take Jonathan Ive for example)
No. :/
The hippies are going to change the world... don't trust anyone over 25! Rock and roll is going to change the world... etc. Each generation fails just like the last.