Social comparison is the problem here

Consider a rookie baseball player who earns $500,000 a year. He is by any definition, rich. But say he plays on the same team as Mike Trout, who has as 12 year $439 million contract. By comparison, the rookie is broke. But then think about Mike Trout, Thirty six million dollars per year is an instance amount of money. But to make it on the list of the top ten highest paid hedge fund managers in 2018 you needed to earn at least $340 million in one year. That is who people like Trout might compare their income to. And the hedge fund manager who makes $340 million per year compares himself to the top five hedge fund managers, who earned at least $770 million in 2018. Those top managers can look ahead to people like Warren Buffett, whose personal fortune increase by $3.5 billion in 2008. And someone like Buffett could look ahead to Jeff Bezos, whose net worth increased by $24 billion in 2018, a sum that equates to more per hour than the rich baseball player make in a full year.

The point is that the ceiling of social comparison is so high that virtually no one will ever hit it. Which means it is a battle that can never be won or that the only way to win is to not fight to begin with, to accept that you might have enough, even if it is less than those around you.