What would help

This is by Peter Maurin who, along with Dorothy Day, was one of the founders of the Catholic worker movement:

The world would be better off if people tried to become better. And people would become better if they stopped trying to become better off. For when everybody tries to become better off, nobody is better off. But when everybody tries to become better, everybody is better off.

Everybody would be rich if nobody tried to become richer. And nobody would be poor if everybody tried to be the poorest. And everybody would be what he ought to be if everybody tried to be what he wants the other fellow to be.

And the source is, needless to say, The Catholic Worker paper.
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