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Here's what i think.
Karma is just cause and effect, not a magical force that randomly rewards or punishes you.
There is short-term personal karma, that which you create and affects you (and others) in your lifetime and that of the world interacting in the long-term over time creating consequences for the future. The two aren't really separate, just different ways of looking at the same thing.
You work out and end up getting fit - that's your personal karma. You get run over walking home form the gym - that's the drink driver's karma affecting you (as well as that of the people who invented and built the car, the street, etc without whom it couldn't have happened).
Everything is interconnected - you send your karma out into the world and the world's karma interacts with yours. Your personal karma improves your chances of success and happiness if it is positive. It doesn't guarantee it - because you are not separate from the world and other people's personal karma.
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