YOU’RE NOT LAZY. YOU’RE BEING FARMED.

Lewis Bradbury writes: What looks like apathy or generational softness is better understood as cognitive exhaustion. Young Australians face housing stress, insecure work, and climate anxiety with depleted attention and dysregulated reward systems. Platforms built to monetise engagement extract cognitive capacity before it can be spent on deep work, collective action, or political participation, turning a structural design choice into a personal burden.