 after graduating college. It was a lucrative business, right? You didn't have all these rules, regulations, brand specs. But now things have gotten tighter. He says right now high-end hotels are doing much better than the mid-scale places he runs. The wealth gap in the U.S. has continued to grow in the last few years. Between those challenges and growing regulations, he sometimes wonders whether he should have chosen a different career. I don't want government telling me how to run my business.