The Wealth Trap: A Half Century of Saving for a Dream That's Elusive at Best Research from the Resolution Foundation paints a stark picture of Britain's wealth inequality, with numbers that are downright depressing.
Decades of touting social mobility as a core tenet of Western democracies have been undermined by these statistics.
The average worker would need to save for 52 years to leave the middle class and join the ranks of the wealthy.