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The PMC are more akin to cops. Their wage is earned through facilitating capitalist governance/violence. A social services worker doesn't produce a marketable commodity or value for capitalists the same way a waiter or factory worker do—instead they play a role as a relief valve for the contradictions of capitalism.
You should let the capitalists know this then because what you're describing does not decribe the system, how capitalists behave or how capitalist governments define policy. If one plays a role as a 'relief valve for the contradictions of capitalism', then under capitalism their labour is both desirable and subject to market forces. Capitalist governments absolutely do treat public work as a marketable commodity. No resources are allocated without a calculus behind it, or behind the intent of devaluing the labor as much as is possible.
And, again, being a proletarian is a social class in respects to ownership of the means of production. That's it. Any more splitting of hairs and soon enough you'll be claiming that the soup kitchen worker is a PMC akin to cops.