Marxism/socialism/collectivism is not about growing the economy and creating wealth. It’s about central control.
These people know that their ideas would harm the economy. But it would harm your economy not theirs
It's what's behind the BLM, Antifa riots. They want to create chaos to the point that all policing is federalized. The people in the streets are just "useful idiots". The left will fight the schools opening to help cripple the economy. They think a crippled economy is their ticket to the "golden land" where they will control the govt, then they can systematically destroy private business with rules like the one in this article.
We are really at a crossroads. It's tyranny vs. liberty and right now it seems like more people want tyranny.