The first reason was because the social gap between rich and poor had become more extreme.

The gap between house prices and income has become too big.

The gap between the rich and everybody else in this country is fast becoming an unbridgeable chasm.

Less noticed is how wide the gap has become between top officers and their immediate subordinates.

The tighter the gap became, the higher the plume shot as the pressure increased until it hit the end.

Consider how wide the gap had become between what companies spent on projects and what they made in cash flow.

And the gaps in the story start becoming more obvious: there is virtually nothing about antibiotics, for example.

Social and economic gaps are becoming so great that some countries face a drift toward complete chaos.

The more means a country needs to mobilise in order to catch up, the larger the gap becomes between rules and reality.

As can be seen in the report, the gap between rich and poor has become wider.