I don't hear it talked about as much lately. I do think 2020's events had a lot to do with it. I'm now hearing two different things:

1. Sometimes shitty things just happen to people and we'd be a lot better off if we understood that and didn't try to concoct some kind of excuse to make ourselves feel better by assuming the person deserved it.

2. The SYSTEM is broken and causing tremendous hardship for everyday people, and it makes no sense to try to ascribe this pain to individual failings. 

This is mostly coming from Millennials and Gen Zers, but I've increasingly heard it from Gen X as well. 

We're entering an Aquarian phase. Individual concerns are out the window. It's about society as a whole now. 

The term “collective karma” came to mind when reading this. I’ve never seen anything as punishment, but to act as a guidance system towards a more right action. 

I think victim blaming is from a need to feel secure about ourselves. Like, a cold-hearted person may see a homeless person who has Schizophrenia and say, "See, they probably deserved it from some past life!" 

But, that type of thinking stems from a fear of things 'being out of our control.' If we can just assign bad things to karma, then we can at least, unconsciously, make things better by creating good karma. It's like thinking, "If I don't do bad things, then bad things won't happen to me ever again!" It's a sense of control.

To be quite frank, everyone has had these types of thoughts before, they just don't say it! To me, I needed a new philosophy than just karma, perhaps the homeless is for us to learn to be more softer towards each other.