Excuses are what are left when you deduct unforeseeable circumstance and ignorance from the gap between performance and intention.
Joy is the answer to why, not the converse. How is the only relevant question.
Did Jesus have a sense of humor? If one focuses on the doctrine of love, then you must say yes. If you focus on a God who condemns the frivolous to eternal torture, then you must say no–life would be much too serious then.
If you teach a man to fish, but he can’t reach a lake, then you have accomplished little. Wealth-building always begins with jobs, no matter what they pay, and any system that ensures structural unemployment is unjust, even if those who do not work are compensated for those failures.