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What is the alternative to being an Individual Contributor? An...individual non-contributor? Or a non-individual contributor?

Management and leadership roles.

And they aren't said to contribute? Odd terminology.

SV-speak for labor, really, as in "the interests of capital/management and labor are, at times, opposed".

I think it was originally a Microsoft acronym.

But, yeah, IC = prole.

Never heard this before, reminds me of Idiocracy's 'Particular Individuals'