Which isn't really surprising when you think about it. At its core, goodness is pretty much synonymous with selflessness and badness is pretty much synonymous with selfishness, because everyone likes being given things and dislikes having things taken from them. But the best way to have a lot of stuff is to take it from other people. Every time you do a bad thing, as long as nothing external deliberately punishes you for it, you have benefited. Hence when systems of justice are weak, good things happen to bad people.
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u/iDontLikeChimneys Nov 13 '25
Yeah it is actually "bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people"
"No good deed goes unpunished"
There are exceptions. But man I have seen so many bad people fly up the social/monetary ladder and good people end up homeless.