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In a world where sports players receive some of the highest salaries, people care way too much about movie stars, and reality TV shapes the way some people view society, it seems to me that society has some misplaced values. When Keeping Up with the Kardashians creeps its way into conversations and the media, a lot of meaningful conversation gets shoved aside. Kids may even grow up thinking that's the way they should live their lives. Reality TV just seems to be a waste of airspace. It might be different if the networks offered a more beneficial set of options, but they don't.

What if we could change people's perception of reality TV? What if the networks created shows that were entertaining, but they showed people in society who were helping to change it in a good way? I think a really cool idea for a reality TV show would be to show the everyday lives of famous inventors and innovators: the revolutionaries who are positively impacting the world on a daily basis, like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. I think their lives would be interesting enough that people would want to watch, and it would also create a more productive interest for society. Just think: If these people were our role models and were the topic of conversations and the media, less attention would be paid to the Kardashians and more effort might be put into innovation. This new emphasis might encourage more kids to pursue careers where they could be a part of the innovation too. I think that's a much better reality than one filled with overpaid reality TV stars.