--- title: Five Best: What We Lose When Only Rich Kids Play Sports description: This is what we lose when only rich kids can play sports, ISIS is still thriving online and more. canonical: https://time.com/4962580/what-we-lose-when-only-rich-kids-play-sports/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-29T16:00:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:27.271Z article:section: Ideas og:title: What We Lose When Only Rich Kids Play Sports og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4962580/what-we-lose-when-only-rich-kids-play-sports/ 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: What We Lose When Only Rich Kids Play Sports twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # What We Lose When Only Rich Kids Play Sports by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 29, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 29, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**This is what we lose when only rich kids can play sports.**](https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/09/whats-lost-when-only-rich-kids-play-sports/541317/) By Linda Flanagan in the _Atlantic_ **2\.** [**Nearly vanquished on the battlefield, ISIS is still thriving online.**](https://www.thecipherbrief.com/article/middle-east/isis-caliphate-fades-social-media-empire-remains) By Bennett Seftel in _Cipher Brief_ **3\.** [**Can special swim lessons protect children with autism?**](https://www.statnews.com/2017/09/27/autism-children-water-swim-lessons/) By Leah Samuel in _STAT News_ **4\.** [**The self-driving cars of the future will need ‘eyes’ like ours.**](https://qz.com/1088163/robot-cars-need-eyes-like-ours-soon-they-might-have-them/) By Ephrat Livni in _Quartz_ **5\.** [**The crisis in Puerto Rico makes a solid case for statehood.**](https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/09/this-is-why-puerto-rico-needs-statehood/541014/) By Kriston Capps in _CityLab_  [_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/4962580/what-we-lose-when-only-rich-kids-play-sports/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4962580/what-we-lose-when-only-rich-kids-play-sports/"},"headline":"What We Lose When Only Rich Kids Play Sports","datePublished":"2017-09-29T16:00:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:27.271Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4962580/what-we-lose-when-only-rich-kids-play-sports/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Autism","ISIS","Puerto Rico","self-driving cars","Sports"],"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/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4962580/what-we-lose-when-only-rich-kids-play-sports/","name":"What We Lose When Only Rich Kids Play Sports"}}]}] ```