> Why would let say business owner care about the increase the "talent pool" 15-20 years down the road ?
Because said capitalist presumably has kids, and he wants his kids to have a bigger talent-pool from where they can choose their future employees so that the company can continue to prosper. But you're right, nowadays "business owners" doesn't mean "capitalist" (or a bunch of capitalists, let's say maxim 3 or 4), it usually means some anonymous pension funds which appoint administrators (i.e. CEOs) to run the business for them. Of course that those CEOs don't have any incentives to look forward in time because their kids' future success doesn't depend on what their present company is doing. Schumpeter decried this phenomenon as early as the 1930s, and predicted that will "help" with the demise of capitalism.
> Your second paragraph, why would the business owner care about their workers kids ?
I hope I answered this in the previous paragraph. In short, the business owners' kids will need to have employees on their own (and good ones at that) and relatively speaking prosperous clients. If you don't care about the kids of today's workers then you're reducing both the numbers of your kids' potential very good employees and prosperous clients.
Because said capitalist presumably has kids, and he wants his kids to have a bigger talent-pool from where they can choose their future employees so that the company can continue to prosper. But you're right, nowadays "business owners" doesn't mean "capitalist" (or a bunch of capitalists, let's say maxim 3 or 4), it usually means some anonymous pension funds which appoint administrators (i.e. CEOs) to run the business for them. Of course that those CEOs don't have any incentives to look forward in time because their kids' future success doesn't depend on what their present company is doing. Schumpeter decried this phenomenon as early as the 1930s, and predicted that will "help" with the demise of capitalism.
> Your second paragraph, why would the business owner care about their workers kids ?
I hope I answered this in the previous paragraph. In short, the business owners' kids will need to have employees on their own (and good ones at that) and relatively speaking prosperous clients. If you don't care about the kids of today's workers then you're reducing both the numbers of your kids' potential very good employees and prosperous clients.