He's on track to launch over 90% of the world's mass to space by 2025.
What's not appreciated outside the military is that these satellites have uses beyond consumer Internet:
Musk utterly dominates orbital (1) mass (2) compute, (3) energy production (4) kinetic energy (the satellites have boosters) and (5) EM output (these are transmitters, after all).
In other words, Musk has 6000 rockets covering the entire planet at 7.7 km/s and capable of delivering kinetic and electromagnetic energy. He can deny any superpower access to low orbit and probably conduct electronic warfare. I'm sure there's theoretical and/or operational work happening towards this.
Beyond this, Musk also controls the vast majority of global satellite production AND delivery capacity. He can deliver payload to ANY orbit. Reminder: explosives aren't needed when you can accelerate mass to orbital speeds.
In other words, SpaceX completely dominates the orbital domain.
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