Talent shows on television don’t seem to deliver superstar performers due to a limiting set of values:
- They are build on scarcity, only a very limited amount of people can participate when there is an abundance of talent out there …. Scarcity vs. Abundance
- The underlying structure is always that of a competition, there is only one winner, when it is cooperation that brings out the best of us Competition vs cooperation.
- The shows feature cover songs when it is original music that makes artists superstars Covers vs original music.
This doesn’t mean talentshows on tv are bad it just means they don’t fit in this time. It’s not competition OR cooperation it is competition AND cooperation.