Okay, how does the other party get richer? It usually isn't because they fight against more efficient technologies.
> Look at how tax preparation companies can lobby against the IRS destroying their pointless business.
Complicated taxes is much more of a political problem than it is a pure efficiency problem that technology can adequately tackle. If a technology that was much better at doing taxes came along, that would be a more comparable situation.
> Certainly this may not hold forever (...) But you can improve your and your children's life by stifling progress where it benefits you.
Yeah sure you can, there are lucky and savvy survivors in every situation. But I think it's more likely that you not only lose, you worsen your and your children's life by having wasted time fighting when you could have been pursuing more effective ways of surviving by adapting to technology.