I dunno if it works all the time, but it definitely worked for me recently.
This guy got me fired from a job last June. He got fired less than a month later, then got another job, and was just fired from that. And his girlfriend left him. So I'd call that satisfying karmic blow-back.
I can't say i believe in some sort of karmic balance, but if you're a dick eventually life will push back when people get tired of putting up with it. Its surely not balanced, otherwise folks like Trump would be a warning story. some people are just so powerful or terrifying that it never reaches the tipping point
kram: Perhaps those horrible people were very good in a previous life.
Interesting thought.... Do we live multiple times? And then if a person were really good in one life, why would they be so horrible in another??? That would be a fascinating research project.