The term that could be best described as the way that Kevin is thinking is a social comparison. Social comparison is being defined as a way of individual's determine his or her social worth in which could be based from how the person stack against other people in which we could see how Kevin felt better after finding out that Samantha was struggling more than him.
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yes because he'll have 200 over for other stuff
Everyone was so focused on the things that were being done and the new things like cars.