--- title: Five Best: What If Museums Cost More for Rich People description: What if museums cost more for rich people, unhappiness is a palate cleanser and more. canonical: https://time.com/5210791/what-if-museums-cost-more-for-rich-people/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-22T16:00:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:57:58.900Z article:section: Ideas og:title: What If Museums Cost More for Rich People og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5210791/what-if-museums-cost-more-for-rich-people/ 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 If Museums Cost More for Rich People 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 If Museums Cost More for Rich People by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 22, 2018 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 22, 2018 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**What if museums cost more for rich people?**](https://www.fastcompany.com/40545660/what-if-rich-people-paid-more-when-they-went-to-museums) By Adele Peters in _Fast Company_ **2\.** [**Unhappiness is a palate cleanser, helping your brain prepare for what’s next.**](http://nautil.us/issue/58/self/unhappiness-is-a-palate%5Fcleanser) By Indira M. Raman in _Nautilus_ **3\.** [**Facebook’s business model is why we need a digital protection agency.**](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-21/paul-ford-facebook-is-why-we-need-a-digital-protection-agency) By Paul Ford at _Bloomberg Businessweek_ **4\.** [**Will Yellowstone — and its skiing, fishing and tourism industries — fall victim to climate change?**](http://mountainjournal.org/will-climate-change-destroy-yellowstone) By Todd Wilkinson at _Mountain Journal_ **5\.** [**Eighty percent of venture capital is invested in just three U.S. states. That has to change.**](https://www.recode.net/2018/3/20/17136652/comeback-cities-tour-bus-midwest-investment-incubation-local-youngstown-detroit-flint-ryan-khanna) By Tim Ryan and Ro Khanna in _Recode_  [_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/5210791/what-if-museums-cost-more-for-rich-people/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5210791/what-if-museums-cost-more-for-rich-people/"},"headline":"What If Museums Cost More for Rich People","datePublished":"2018-03-22T16:00:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:57:58.900Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5210791/what-if-museums-cost-more-for-rich-people/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","climate change","facebook","Happiness","Venture Capital","museums"],"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/5210791/what-if-museums-cost-more-for-rich-people/","name":"What If Museums Cost More for Rich People"}}]}] ```