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It could be possible for two people to be good friends even if one has much more money than does the other. Do you agree or disagree with the statement? Use specific reasons and details in your essay.
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There have been many discussions about whether the rich can be a friend of the poor. Every person has their own point of view on this topic, which varies respectively. However, I believe friendship is not a relation determined by money that each entity of a friendship has. I have several reasons which support my opinion, two of which I will mainly discuss in the following paragraphs.
First of all, true friendship pursues providing consolation to each other than earning private profits or financial gains. In society, people experience a variety of struggles, failures, and achievements as getting older and older. Consequently, they become wanting a companion in life that they could rely on and relieve their emotional burdens talking with. One form of that is marriage, and the other is friendship. Thus, genuine friendship is made up of incentives for people to derive emotional comfort from others, not gaining financial benefits. Some people seem to insist that the different environments of two people whose financial status differs from each other are one of the factors that make friendship between them impossible. They say that as their circumstances are different, they subsequently get to have different points of view on life, which forces their friendship not to be accomplished. However, the perspective or disposition that a person has is not determined by the environment that the person is in. If so, only the poor can be born in the family of the poor, and only the rich can be born in the family of the rich; as this postulation is not essentially true, their insistence is not a perfect counterargument. People can have ideas similar to each other's ones, regardless of whether they are in the same circumstances. It is oneself that makes a person have a certain way of life or point of view on life, not other exterior factors like environment or financial status.
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There have been many discussions concerning whether the rich can be friends with common people. Individuals holds diverse perspectives on this topic, which often differ significantly. However, I believe that good friendship involves genuine care and concern for the well-being of the other person, and thus the well-off and the common can be good friends. I have several reasons that support my opinion, two of which I will mainly discuss in the following paragraphs.
First of all, wealthy individuals and middle class people can mutually benefit each other as an employer and employee. In society, it is a rare occasion for rich people to come across ordinary people because the surrounding environments and the fashions of life in which they usually live differ substantially. Hence, the workplace is the most common area where these two discrete classes interact. In the workplace, employees work for their boss, and the boss pay them with money in return. This mutually benefiting relationship can be regarded as a friendship, considering that they care each others' well-being and profit. Some may argue that genuine friendship must contain supporting emotionally and bringing solace to the other. However, people can render such kind of deed even without sincere care and heartfelt sympathy for the other; indeed, nowadays, we often see politicians or criminals apologizing just in a superficial manner, not with whole heart. Money, on the other hand, is what individuals never provide to others if they don't whole-heartedly appreciate and care for them. Thus, I dare to say that money embodies the emotion and heart of a person toward the other more precisely and genuinely than merely paying lip service. From my first-hand experience, I was once in a deep distress when I was a teenager. That was because I wasn't able to find the way through in which I should proceed. I didn't have an obvious goal in my life, not being sure whether I was doing right, being full of feeling of depression of worthlessness. My friends and close acquaintances gave me some words of comfort, but I could feel that all of their behaviors were not with a sincere heart. They were just mimicking such stuffs posted on the Internet about how to console your friends, which were all impractical at all. One day, a friend of mine came to me and grabbed me some money. He told me to have some break and use this money while doing so. I was pretty shocked because no one else had tried to provide me with such financial support. I used the money to buy some books of some renowned philosophers and could find out the break through I should take. To recap, friends of mine who didn't take my pain and sorrow seriously just rendered some comforting comments to me, but the one who really appreciated my circumstances presented me money. Money is what people value the most, and thus it is the authentic way to express one's sincere concern to the other in friendship or any other intimate relationships.
Second of all, the wealthier and the common can foster mutual advantages as a politician and a citizen. Becoming a politician requires lots of resources, and actually, we can observe that most of them are usually more well-off than ordinary citizens. Politicians are needy of political fame and their supporters to vote for them, while citizens are in the need of economical profits and want policymaking in favor of them the most. Thus, they can join together to follow mutual interest they have in common, which, in turn, validates the idea that these two discrete entities can take a sort of friendship. Some people seem to believe that politicians are generally not faithful in keeping their election promises. They further insist that, as soon as elected, politicians tend to break their campaign promises whenever considering them no longer valuable and needed to be fulfilled. However, unless they deliberately choose to become a tyrant or a furious dictator, they would try to be responsible in their promises. That is because a system of democracy elects its parliamentary members by the vote of the citizens. If citizens believe that the politicians they elected don't commit themselves to making election promises implemented, they won't vote them again in the next election, which poses a remarkable threat on not only the politicians but also the party involved. Therefore, it is no wonder that politicians do their best to keep their campaign promises.
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