A recent post to the subreddit r/askportland captured the frustration.
“Does anyone know anything about these new video ads being on the side of the buildings?” asked the OP. They featured a picture of the bright billboard against the city’s skyline.
“Is downtown turning into Times Square now?” they asked.
David Park, an associate professor at Florida International University, explained that “much of production in capitalism has little to do with the satisfaction of genuine human needs and more to do with the profit motive that drives extraction of raw materials to produce a never-ending supply of goods.”…