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There are over 160 companies trying to design and build rockets. Any SpaceX monopoly is going to be temporary.

Space X money comes from government grants. Their initial investment was 0, compared to competitors.

1. SpaceX has received billions in investments. Elon orignally put in about $100million, since then they've raised billions more.

2. They mostly don't get government grants, they get government contracts. Do you call it a grant when the Forest Service buys an F-150 from Ford?

This is not true he only put $100K

Read again. That was a donation to the Mars Society, a very different organization.

Do you have any links to these government grants that Space X is getting? The government paying for a product that Space X produces is not a grant.

history/second paragraph, whether you call it grant or any other way it's still just tax money

Yes, if you redefine the word grant to mean something else, Space X is only successful because of grant money. Words don't mean anything.