George observed that most people who moved west remained poor or got poorer, while the relatively few land developers got richer and richer.

乔治观察到，大多数向西迁移的人仍然很穷或变得更穷，而相对较少的土地开发商变得越来越富有。

The word cookie-cutter is used to describe a group of things that look alike. For example, if a land developer develops a neighborhood using the same design for all of the houses, they may look very cookie-cutter, or all the same.

这个词用来描述一组看起来相似的东西。例如，如果土地开发商开发了一个社区，为所有房屋使用相同的设计，那么它们可能看起来一样，或者完全相同。