is there no such thing as good taste?

Paul Graham's essay on "Good Taste" was so cathartic in my development as a founder that I am compelled to share it here. I agree with his perspective wholeheartedly. My favorite insight from it:

"So if you want to discard the concept of good taste, you also have to discard the concept of good art. And that means you have to discard the possibility of people being good at making it. Which means there's no way for artists to be good at their jobs. And not just visual artists, but anyone who is in any sense an artist. You can't have good actors, or novelists, or composers, or dancers either. You can have popular novelists, but not good ones.

We don't realize how far we'd have to go if we discarded the concept of good taste, because we don't even debate the most obvious cases. But it doesn't just mean we can't say which of two famous painters is better. It means we can't say that any painter is better than a randomly chosen eight year old..."

https://www.paulgraham.com/goodtaste.html