We have hordes of people whose mission in life is to
ensure the price rise is smooth. They are called commodity traders. The price will start rising years before regular people on th street understand why it's going up. The traders will laugh all the way to the bank.
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"Consider a perfectly spherical cow, radiating milk isotropically."
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