For Aristotle, the banausos is not just physically deformed by his profession, but politically and ethically stunted: specialization makes him less a complete man than a TOOL of his occupation.
Politics, book VII:
"And any occupation, art, or science, which makes the body or soul or mind of the freeman less fit for the practice or exercise of virtue, is vulgar; wherefore we call those arts vulgar which tend to DEFORM the body, and likewise all paid employments, for they absorb and degrade the mind."
@dbentley@colesimulator Sure, universities negotiate their plans and what they offer to their students might vary from uni to uni. But ain't no way they're letting individual student accounts run up (near-)unlimited tokens. Source: been there, tried that.
@andreas_krieg@GiorgioCafiero "predictability rather than reconciliation" - They can flex their nonexistent muscles and do their dance with the Pajeets for all Pakistan cares.