HEAVY COPE
Griffin displays a moment of genuine structural awareness when he admits seeing high-skilled PhD-level work being automated by AI made him 'fairly depressed' watching 'man-years of work being done in days or weeks.' But he immediately pivots to classic race-framing cope: job destruction will happen, but entrepreneurs will create jobs at 'the same or a faster clip.' He layers on magical job-creation stories (pet insurance sold for $1B, 'Elon Musks of the next generation'), reskilling mythology ('lifelong learners' will adapt), and 'forget what you read in the papers—this is the best of times' optimism theater. He also deflects entirely from rentier dynamics while personally benefiting from them as a hedge fund owner capturing AI productivity gains.