Sometimes there's an easy way around. With the article's example, you buy an EzPass (or call the tolls-by-mail number & pay the extra fee for that vs EzPass). T

Sometimes there's an easy way around. With the article's example, you buy an EzPass (or call the tolls-by-mail number & pay the extra fee for that vs EzPass). Then you don't need to borrow your neighbour's EzPass, or return the pillow, or restuff the pillow, or shave the yak. Likewise for many real systems, often one of the intermediate steps has a better alternative.