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 be wants the other fellow to be.
-from A Case For Utopia by Peter Maurin
2 comments:
While I gladly concede that the world would be a better place if we all tried to be better people, I don't understand the premise that the world is worse for people trying to be better off.
i think the idea that if i were more focused on following Christ than i was on getting mine, we'd probably all get ours.
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