The Patel Method

The Patel Method is a business strategy where a single ethnic group basically finds a way to monopolize an entire industry. A prime example of this is motels in the United States, where 80 to 90% of them are owned by people with the last name Patel. Now how does this actually happen? Well, it all has to do with how business and immigration interact. You see, when the Patels arrived with limited job options and basically no capital, they weren't able to buy huge hotels. So instead, they started buying up small motels that nobody else actually wanted. They would then live as a family in one room and just cut cost by firing replacing it with their own labor. With this ambition, they could basically undercut everyone else in the market, pretty much giving them a monopoly in business. Then they would bring in more people from their family to help scale the business that's already succeeding. Which is why to this day, Patels own almost all of the motels. But other ethnic groups have done the exact same thing. For example, Chinese immigrants tend to own a ton of laundromats, Jewish immigrants have dominated jewelry and diamond trade, and Korean immigrants are doing really good in the nail salon and beauty space. And no matter who it is, as long as they're providing a better service for a better price, that everybody should applaud.