Genesis 47

Joseph was a very good administrator, maybe too good.  He seemed cool and calm before Pharaoh coming out of jail saying, "It is not in me.  God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer" (Genesis 42).  But as the starving Egyptians come to Joseph and have paid him all the money they have, Joseph continues to barter them down, taking their land for Pharaoh, taking their livestock for Pharaoh, and yes, making them Pharaoh's slaves.  Hmm.  Joseph sounds like the guy who finds a man bleeding on the street and says, "Hey I will call 911 if you give Pharaoh your fishing boat, or your road bike, or your Prius."  Of course they accept, or they would have died.  But Joseph sets up things in Egypt to prepare the way, years later when he was forgotten, for the people of Israel to become slaves. What if Joseph would have said, "Take it, a free gift, you don't have to give anything."  Or if he would have said, "Give all of this to God, for Pharaoh and I myself would have been starving without hope HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR GOD."  Does Pharaoh really deserve anything?  Maybe Joseph in all the hype of Egypt had forgotten who he was serving.  Pharaoh was not his master, or was he?