Information Systems and Unemployment

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Should companies be responsible for unemployment caused by their information system? This argument had risen over the years among employer and employees. Hence several ethical point of view had been brought up to response to this issue where from ethical egoism point of view believes that companies should not be responsible for unemployment as with information system implemented they are able to benefit from a long term profit therefore this is a morally right action. On the other hand, act utilitarianism believes that an action is wrong to the extent that it decreases the total happiness of the affected parties and in this case it will causes a lot of upsets towards the employees and therefore it is believed that companies are responsible for their unemployment. With all these ethical theory rising up, Kantianism theory will be chosen to discussed throughout this article to respond to the issue.
Early growth in computer processing had little effect on jobs, But as year goes by artificial intelligent had evolve to a point where it is able to think like a human, as more and more large amount of new skills were being captured. With these robots, automation or software it is possible to replace people who’s worked in manufacturing industry, service industry or even agriculture industry. Since the notable advancement in computing technology which moves from improved industrial robotics to automated translation service. Andrew McAfee believes that these transition had becoming the reasons behind the sluggish employment growth of the last 10 to 15 years as the rapid technological change has been destroying job faster than it is creating them. (Andrew McAfee, 2012)
Kantianism is a deontological ethical theory that concludes that the o...

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