I know I just posted that Joseph was one of my favorite stories, but this chapter holds my only problem with his story. Why does he charge the people for their own grain? He collected their grain during the years of feasting, and apparently collected so much that they have some left over to sell to outsiders. I get why people from other lands were charged for it, because they didn't do any of the work to plant, harvest, or store it. But it was the Egyptians' grain in the first place, they shouldn't have had to sell themselves into servitude to get it.
