Disparities between those who have more and those who have less have existed pretty much from the moment agriculture enabled us to accumulate a surplus.

从农业使我们能够积累盈余的那一刻起，富人和穷人之间的差距就一直存在。

Along with new opportunities for some people to accumulate surpluses, came new labor demands, tying most people to a hard regime of tending their crops while a privileged few received freedom and the leisure to do other things.

伴随着一些人积累盈余的新机会，出现了新的劳动力需求，将大多数人束缚在照料庄稼的艰苦制度下，而少数享有特权的人则获得了自由和空闲时间来做其他事情。