Retributive Justice and Artefactual Karma

The concept of Retributive Justice entails those of Property and Equivalence. For, it presupposes that that to which what one receives corresponds is, in some respect, 'one's own', and that the correlation is that of Equality. Thus, grounding the concept is that of constancy in an orbital pattern of motion initiated by, and returning to, some agent. In other words, underlying the concept of Retributive Justice is that of what is often more familiarly known as 'Karma'. However, one significant distinction between the two is that the latter is conceived as either 'natural', or 'divine', whereas, the former is an artefactual institution. Thus, for example, the Labor Theory of Value, according to which retribution for work should correspond to the quantity of energy invested in the modification of some material, is a special case of artefactual Karma