"Better and Better Off"

I like this and really resonate with what's being expressed here (I first beard it while watching a Dorothy Day Interview - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRSjY_4fFfc). Then, I found it online (in the form of a PDF document) - http://www.sbcw.org/PDF/Better.pdf

Better and Better Off
An Easy Essay by Peter Maurin

The world would be better off,
if people tried
to become better.
And people would
become better
if they stopped trying
to be 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 be 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.