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All I hear these days is either:
Never give the company anything because they'll never give anything to you
or
Work hard and you'll be noticed and climb the ladder.
Neither is inherently true.
You can be in a 'family' company where the next lazy AF 18 YO will be your next boss
You can be in a corporate meritocracy where your boss is an idiot and just stands on your shoulders without passing anything downhill.
If your company has upward momentum and your boss is both a decent and transparent human being, you can work hard and move up.
You can also work hard and succeed at projects and hop job to job with a strong resume (assuming the market isn't shit, like it is atm)
Know your boss.
The age of the person isnt part of the problem. Literally, the boss could be any age and have knowledge and thoughtfulness to lead the company.
Generally, at 18 years old, you've not had any significant amount of time in managing people. You lack the experience to understand where the other workers are coming from and therefore any empathy you have for them is constructed from an inexperienced world view. While not impossible to be a natural born leader at 18, most are emotionally and intellectually ill-equipped to handle day to day problems at arise on the workplace. In context, this 18 year old was placed into this position, not because of their natural born leadership and excellent negotiation tactics, but rather because the family needs to groom them to take over the business. In my decidedly greater than 18 year old experience, those situations do not breed strong leaders and those that are under them generally suffer. In your late 20's to early 30's, given the appropriate opportunities to work in management, many can thrive. It's not ageism, it's just that maturity and experience does play a significant role in being able to lead others, especially when it comes to others that aren't particularly good at taking orders or producing work without close supervision.
The thing is, age doesnt equate experience. At 18 you can certainly be mature and experienced; Its really a gross over-simplication to state otherwise.
But I do agree that the person has been placed most probably out of consent to upheld the family tradition. Otherwise, that person has every capacity to have that emotional intelligence - just how older people can have less.