Hayek states that society is improved when individuals are free to trade and travel with out the interference of government. Socialism and all other forms of collectivism are characterised as slavery. He insists that it was the ability for entrepreneurs to fail within a free market system that produced the industrial revolution, arguing that the principles of freedom that facilitated this revolution where undermined by the very people who where empowered and benefitted from it, the working class. The free market had allowed the working man, for the first time, to see that it was possible to improve his own life. In an effort to progress further they surrendered their new freedoms to the state.