This makes me think of the convention of WARMLY WELCOMING and GRATEFUL to foreign volunteer-tourists who are using three weeks building a house (badly) as a resume-builder that will allow them to go back to their home country and get into law school. The financial value of what's being taken away (the ability to wow hiring committees and application-readers with what an Awesome Person You Are) is in most cases substantially higher than the financial value of what's being left in-country, and yet I think it's interesting how North American tourists tend to respond with this sense of outright aggrieved betrayal when people are anything but head-over-heels grateful that we've consented to show up, hit our thumbs with a hammer a couple of times, complain about the food, and leave again. I think it's a very similar phenomenon with writer-tourists.