It seems obvious that their anger is cope. They need you not to have meaning because they don’t. They need to justify someone taking away your dignity because someone took away theirs. They want you to look away from your impact, because they are desperate to avoid their own. But it’s an intellectual and empathetic dead-end. Telling other people to give up on meaningful work isn’t edgy, it’s poison. And people with substantive critiques of capitalism aren’t