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The concepts taught by professors at school were regularly disproved by professionals during his internship at Fidelity. Many old-fashioned brokers were students of a particular industry, or a particular handful of companies, and could help teach clients the ins and outs. The problem becomes thornier when it comes to the matter of free trade; as the authors observe, “left-behind people live in left-behind places,” which explains why regional poverty descended on Appalachia when so many manufacturing jobs left for China in the age of globalism, leaving behind not just left-behind people but also people ripe for exploitation by nationalist politicians. social_instagram social_lastfm social_linkedin_alt social_linkedin social_pinterest social_spotify Group 4 Created with Sketch. Kahneman continually refers to System 2 as “lazy”: We don’t want to think rigorously about something.