Author is getting paid to organize information on a multitude of nations and their employment and economic prospects and human rights conditions. Businesses need guidance on where they can get cheap foreign labor to assemble products without long term problems. Author is the one who is charged with solving the problem for them.

Then the author decides that businessmen are shallow jerks because they just want the answer to their problems. They want help to pick a country and guidance about how to exploit the low wage workers without abusing anyone. Author thinks they should instead deeply explore the relative conditions and balance the ineffable cultural and economic differences in the deep way that only a full-time professional country analyst can. They should be like him.

But the businessmen are paying him to do that so they don't have to.

Perhaps the author would be happier with a nice UN or civil service job where he's not accountable to anyone for any kind of useful information. Ideally it would be a job where he can't be fired for self-indulgently coddling his broad-minded curiosity and refusing to give useful answers. Don't worry though; he's not the kind of high-minded idealist who refuses to make his money sending work to the lowest cost country. He's probably an expert on the authentic third-world experience of getting ladies to do his laundry for him cheap.