I'm not sure this author even gets to the point of showing, by his own definition, that Musk is a rent-seeker. He establishes a broad definition of "rent-seeki

I'm not sure this author even gets to the point of showing, by his own definition, that Musk is a rent-seeker. He establishes a broad definition of "rent-seeking" early in the article as this: ...income from government-enforced monopolies, such as patents, copyrights or government projects... Then he details how some of Musk's businesses have benefited from the government, but fails to actually establish how any of those benefits translate into a "government-enforced monopoly".