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1 week ago | 
menafn.com | Sam Jabri-Pickett
(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) The metrics of economic growth around the world might show an arc that moves ever upward, but the reality on the ground shows a growing rejection of independence and individuality in not just business, but politics and society as well. Though in many ways a knock-on effect of young people drifting away from traditional social groups like their religion, nation or state, the financial realities of many are simply too difficult to ignore.
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3 weeks ago | 
khaleejtimes.com | Sam Jabri-Pickett
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4 weeks ago | 
khaleejtimes.com | Sam Jabri-Pickett
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1 month ago | 
khaleejtimes.com | Sam Jabri-Pickett
The ‘pink tax’ is a mark-up on women’s products just because they’re for women. On this topic, I am Gen-Z, because it seemed so obvious it never even crossed my mind to write this column. Or, more likely, because I’m a man I don’t have to deal with it. For goodness’s sake, I have a sister; she was stealing my deodorant when we were tweens, while I was complaining that the added scent in most men’s deodorant was giving me a rash. The mark-up itself is just messed up.
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2 months ago | 
khaleejtimes.com | Sam Jabri-Pickett
Fri, Apr 04, 2025 | Shawwal 6, 1446 | Fajr 04:49 | DXB 36.1°C With the fracturing of culture and news media, young people are now supposed to use all our skills for another world to navigate this oneI see the problem of finding an institution to grow in as part of the problem.
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2 months ago | 
khaleejtimes.com | Sam Jabri-Pickett
By Sam Jabri-PickettThe metrics of economic growth around the world might show an arc that moves ever upward, but the reality on the ground shows a growing rejection of independence and individuality in not just business, but politics and society as well. Though in many ways a knock-on effect of young people drifting away from traditional social groups like their religion, nation or state, the financial realities of many are simply too difficult to ignore.
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2 months ago | 
khaleejtimes.com | Sam Jabri-Pickett
The book series Mortal Engines by English author Philip Reeve tells the story of two plucky young adults who upend the social order of their world. Mortal Engines takes place on Earth in the distant future, after a conflict called the Sixty Minute War ravages the world to such an extent that it leads to geological upheaval.
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2 months ago | 
khaleejtimes.com | Sam Jabri-Pickett
Thu, Mar 13, 2025 | Ramadan 13, 1446 | Fajr 05:13 | DXB 22.8°C Digital nativism has given rise to extra-social cultures, groups of people defined by the fandoms and subcultures to which they belongA few weeks ago, I decried the siloing of culture and subcultures, so isolated and dense that people today exist and communicate on completely different wavelengths to each other, more intersecting like threads on a tapestry than living, working and thriving together as a collective.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
khaleejtimes.com | Sam Jabri-Pickett
Thu, Mar 06, 2025 | Ramadan 6, 1446 | Fajr 05:20 | DXB 30°C What is selling is an image of authenticity, and what is standing the test of time is things that are truly durable, image notwithstanding. Brands and what we’re buying day to day, or how we’re spending our money overall, often have me thinking about the overall economic state of people on the bottom rungs of society’s ladder. Let’s work from a few premises, using fashion, our clothes, as the vehicle.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
khaleejtimes.com | Sam Jabri-Pickett
Thu, Feb 27, 2025 | Shaban 28, 1446 | DXB 22.2°C Striving for genuine impartiality—truthful and fair, rather than the superficial 'both-sides' approach common in the West—provides reassurance to the reader, the citizen, and the spectatorIt is a month and some weeks from what I believe will go down in history as one of the most consequential exchanges of power in modern history.
