"Instant Karma!" we like to say when someone gets theirs quickly. We like the justice of such things, that good people eventually get their just reward and bad people get theirs. We have a strange narrative sense of justice as well, that a miserable life that gets a happy ending is better than a great life that ends badly. Speaking for myself, I'd rather have the great life with a bad year at the end. From the inside a life is a life, not a story.
I know too many people who have come to end with no justice - in both directions. Never got rewarded or never got punished. The more sophisticated definitions of karma are not like our popular version, and I make no comment on those. But the popular version is just flat untrue.
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