<p>This paper explores the relation between self-worth and social comparison. I ask whether social comparison is necessary for self-worth; what conception of social comparison is held if one believes that that is the case; and whether it is possible, and plausible, to conceive of social comparison differently. In investigating the relation between self-worth and social comparison, I will pay special attention to the troubling emotion of envy, because envy tends to emerge when we try to establish self-worth through social comparison. I will focus on two radically different views on the relation between self-worth and social comparison. On the one hand there is the view, developed by Robert Nozick, that self-worth is necessarily established through social comparison. On the other hand there is the view, brought forward by Max Scheler, that self-worth can be established independently of social comparison. I show that both views are problematic and propose a third view: a non-rivalrous comparative conception of self-worth. On this view, we seek to establish a sense of self-worth through interpersonal comparison without considering the person we are comparing ourselves with as someone who we need to outperform.</p>