You can't pay taxes legally if you're not a legal resident.
Yeah you can. You sign up for an ITIN (Individual Taxpayer Identification Number) and use it for your taxes when you don't have a social security number. Please stop spreading misinformation when you don't know what you're talking about.
...but for some reason CS majors insist that the entirety of their job must be done by people with a CS degree.
Not necessarily true. I was a CE major. Where I work there's an ME who knows far more about our system than I do. We have a new developer who's been doing a great job ramping up and her background hasn't been in CS until recently. This is changing. We should encourage it.
"If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it..." -- Marion Zimmer Bradley, _The Forbidden Tower_
