Of course rent is flowing to you. You are capturing $rent = $your_salary - $market_salary. On many past occasions I've also captured rents; I've captured wages

Of course rent is flowing to you. You are capturing $rent = $your_salary - $market_salary. On many past occasions I've also captured rents; I've captured wages that are higher than they would be absent Trumpian forces that protected me from economic competition by folks born outside the US. Perhaps you think that rent is good, but that's a different statement. I'm sure that most Trump supporters also feel they deserve rents at the expense of Mexicans/those who might otherwise employ Mexicans. I'm not sure what "colloquial speech" you refer to or what you mean by "pejorative sense". As far as I know "rent seeker" is a technical term used primarily by economists to refer to people who take actions to seek/preserve their rent. If you feel it's pejorative, that's only because on some level you recognize that harming others for personal gain is not a good thing.