--- title: Understanding the Price of Profits description: How stockholder value changed America, addressing toxic masculinity and more. canonical: https://time.com/4371512/understanding-the-price-of-profits/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-16T16:00:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:52.693Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Understanding the Price of Profits og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4371512/understanding-the-price-of-profits/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Understanding the Price of Profits twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Understanding the Price of Profits by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 16, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 16, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Fifty years ago, corporations cared for employees and that made America stronger. What changed?**](http://features.marketplace.org/priceofprofits/) By Marketplace with Business Insider **2\.** [**One thread connecting many mass murders: toxic masculinity.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/06/toxic-masculinity-and-mass-murder/486983/) By James Hamblin in the Atlantic **3\.** [**Want to spur entrepreneurship? Fix student debt.**](https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/277527) By Grace Reader in Entrepreneur **4\.** [**Personalized learning could transform education — if school internet connections were faster.**](http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brown-center-chalkboard/posts/2016/06/15-school-internet-connections-support-personalized-learning-bleiberg) By Joshua Bleiberg at the Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard **5\.** [**Are we in the midst of a public space crisis?**](https://theconversation.com/are-we-in-the-midst-of-a-public-space-crisis-56124) By Zenovia Toloudi in the Conversation  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4371512/understanding-the-price-of-profits/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4371512/understanding-the-price-of-profits/"},"headline":"Understanding the Price of Profits","datePublished":"2016-06-16T16:00:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:52.693Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4371512/understanding-the-price-of-profits/","keywords":["Innovation","Education","entrepreneurship","Orlando"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4371512/understanding-the-price-of-profits/","name":"Understanding the Price of Profits"}}]}] ```