> I don't think any of these things imply civic sense.

I recommend you read a biography of Musk.

He makes his electric car patents freely available, to advance the transition to electric cars. He started SpaceX with the purpose of making humans a multi-planetary species. He's repeatedly bet his entire fortune on these goals.

He's civic minded where it counts. And he's delivered results.

As for business acumen, he takes financial risks any other businessman would consider to be insane.

Hard to get more civic-minded than that.