We're all constantly keeping score. You can't help it. But trying to pit ourselves against other people in some measurable way is largely a waste of time.

Insecurity is a waste of time.

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

No one is ever a waste of time if you learn something from the experience. But if you consider people a waste of time well you are simply a waste of my time.