Just great. An argument about current economic situations ends with a condemnation of Yosef HaTzaddiq (Joseph the Righteous) as an evil man.
What's next . . . Moses as the first Communist?
I don’t think he was calling Joseph evil.
He was using his story as a cautionary tale of being over-dependent on government ...
As Bastiat would say -— In the economic sphere an act, a habit, an institution, a law produces not only one effect, but a series of effects.
Of these effects, the first alone is immediate; it appears simultaneously with its cause; it is seen. The other effects emerge only subsequently; they are not seen; we are fortunate if we foresee them.
Joseph’s IMMEDIATE ACTS saved everyone, the long term effects (hundreds of years later ) of what he did and what the people allowed themselves to become, was something he could not have predicted, and only God in His sovereign wisdom, knows.