Sure, if "artist" is merely a career and not an aspirational achievement in finding creative ways to reveal truth.
It's where the concept of equity for all leads. When no one is inherently worse or better than anyone else, it becomes mere bigotry to pass any kind of judgment.
That is exactly the thesis of a recent book [0], summarized, more or less, as: "When there is no objective method to rate performance, then the social network becomes the measure of performance."