Orwell, reviewing The Road to Serfdom, judged it the wrong book at the wrong time for a working class that preferred state-intervention risks to laissez-faire risks—yet conceded Hayek's stubborn point that if a certain share of national income passes under state control past a certain point it becomes tyranny and the citizen loses both liberty and welfare, making Orwell again slightly out of step with the near-total social-democratic consensus.