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The taste for high art has become extremely marginal, limited almost entirely to a subset of knowledge workers.

Drawn from what W. David Marx said

taste
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taste Whether good and bad exist in made things, and how a maker comes to tell them apart.

What is taste, and why does it matter now?under our view: Taste is a social signal: what counts as good follows who is on top

What W. David Marx actually said

  1. W. David Marx Tokyo-based American writer; author of Ametora (2015)
    Today the taste for “high art” has become extremely marginal, almost exclusively limited to a particular subset of knowledge workers.

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