Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez actually said...

"It is possible that our GDP numbers are going up without any actual value added to our economy, is that correct?"

"So my question is, how is this different from a pyramid scheme?"

"And it generally can create a situation where it prioritizes the interest of the shareholders more than the actual consumers of the product, or even the employees of the company."

"It just bugs me that we have to do this, right? And what it does is it's additional bureaucracy within my system to account for these bad situations."