Human nature is geared towards comparison
Buddhism was well aware of the discriminatory mind. Practice asks us to constantly notice, label, and come back to the moment. Even if we're not meditating, we can practice noticing - ah, shit, I just compared myself to the neighbours and was about to rebuild my entire house when it's perfectly fine and just needs a vaccuum. Or something.
If, as human beings, we all paid MORE attention to this wandering of the 'mind stuff' as one of the yoga greats put it, the attention economy would fail miserably. But we don't. We're slave to it.
Resistance is a powerful tool of self autonomy.
It is connected to the root of suffering for sure - but I think, that might be part of the human condition that evolves us. Sure, some might be able to check-out of it and be happy, but if everyone does, perhaps society and humanity itself fails catastrophically.
But, there is a balance point somewhere, as there is with everything - finding the edge is the difficulty. :)