Like, if you work for the EPA or as some lab scientist at the FDA, are you still a prole considering you are being paid with the ill gotten gains of the American empire.
Honestly, I don’t see why US government workers shouldn’t be deemed proles, because that degree of moral abstraction could be performed on just about everyone in the US.
To paraphrase Zizek, "take the money moron [sniff], take it and do not feel guilty [short shniffle] and know that when the times comes you will destroy this institution and build upon it a better world [sniff]".
This is something that gets me. The US military is the nation's biggest employer of disabled people, both civilian and active. this is for a lot of different reasons but for a lot of people, they get funneled in through shady recruiting or through employment programs with various agencies. I've personally found myself in grievously deeply suspect situations that could compromise me morally, but were the sort of thing I could at least reason with myself and say, "At least I am doing this, and it's keeping someone dangerous out of this position, while also granting me access to powers and peoples' attentions that let me possibly leverage change." (Not going out of my way to conform and carry out with the mechanical viciousness of the system, however, just to clarify.)
It might be bullshit rationalization on my part at the end of the day, compensating for grief from finding myself in these environs, but I'd rather have someone I agree with positioned in the hierarchy should stuff hit the fan, able to enact some protective action, than be locked out with the rabble getting hurt and enabling hurt.
Honestly I would imagine that a socialist working for an establishment would be better than a chud working there wanting to ensure no one gets any help. Yes the institution itself is either not enough or so bureaucratic (neoliberal means testing BS) it does not give the help we know it materially can, but in the end being able to stop a chud from taking a position of power no matter how small or insignificant in the grand scheme of things is at least making someones day a little better which is currently all we can hope for.