Or step on your fingers while they rob you blind.
Karma conceptually occurs in the next life. Westerners misunderstand it (I've even heard hippies justify stealing because if it's bad, karma will sort it out). Not being of a religious persuasion, I don't believe natural justice the way we tend to think of it, has any basis in reality at all.
I still believe you should be honest and decent because at least that's one less arsehole in the world.
I'm an optimistic nihilist.
Glass is always nearly empty but that just means it can be refilled.