--- --- # Lack of Sleeps Costs Us $411 Billion Every Year by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 1, 2016 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 1, 2016 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Lack of sleep costs us $411 billion every year.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/30/americans-dont-sleep-enough-and-its-costing-us-411-billion/?utm%5Fterm=.9fd468341c85) By Marco Hafner and Wendy M. Troxel in the Washington Post **2\.** [**It’s possible to end AIDS in our lifetime.**](http://time.com/4585360/world-aids-day/) By Oxiris Barbot in Time **3\.** [**What happens when none of us pay for music?**](https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-the-loss-of-music-68169) By Peter Godfrey-Smith in the Conversation **4\.** [**Instead of serving as the new commons, the social web is killing discourse, like TV did before it.**](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602981/social-media-is-killing-discourse-because-its-too-much-like-tv/) By Hossein Derakhshan in MIT Technology Review **5\.** [**This is why you can’t make up your mind.**](https://aeon.co/ideas/final-decision-why-the-brain-keeps-on-changing-its-mind) By Stephen Fleming in Aeon  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Lack of Sleeps Costs Us $411 Billion Every Year ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4587257/lack-of-sleeps-costs-us-411-billion-every-year/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4587257/lack-of-sleeps-costs-us-411-billion-every-year/"},"headline":"Lack of Sleeps Costs Us $411 Billion Every Year","datePublished":"2016-12-01T17:00:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:17.223Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4587257/lack-of-sleeps-costs-us-411-billion-every-year/","keywords":["Innovation","Social Media","Music","Sleep","Aids","decision-making"],"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/4587257/lack-of-sleeps-costs-us-411-billion-every-year/","name":"Lack of Sleeps Costs Us $411 Billion Every Year"}}]}] ```