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Not "highway robbery" ... its a three-legged stool with constantly growing and shrinking legs trying to find balance.

Actually a three-legged stool is always in balance. :-)
But I get what you mean.

Not a stool with magical legs that grow and shrink based on baked in factors!

Important: You have to believe in magic for this analogy to work :P

The pinocchio of stools