This is pretty good, and strangely consistent with my own idea of good taste
Tasteful people pursue stuff with purpose, have an appreciation and curiosity about others who pursue stuff with purpose, and a disregard for people who don't do stuff and/or cover for it by purchasing the correct things to signal that they do
We built systems that prize speed above all else, and in doing so we lost the most fundamental lesson that nature teaches: speed of growth makes you fragile. The tree that shoots up fastest is the first to fall in a storm. The invasive species that spreads the quickest chokes out everything around it and then collapses when conditions change.