What is RARE?

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Posted By: davidcycleback

0 = rare
1 = rare
2 pepperoni & chocolate chip cookies = plentiful
'rare find' = was cut out of a guide earlier in the week

As I wordily said before, rare is an absolute while scarce is relative. You can pick an absolute number for
what counts as rare. With scarce items there is no predetermined absolute quantity. You
can't say 100 or 50 constitutes scarce. Scarce is a matter of supply versus demand. If there aren't enough to
to go around to meet demand, it's scarce. If there are more than anyone wants, it's not scarce.

Of course, rare and scarce are not unrelated. The lower the population the better than chance that it's scarce.