What I didn't like in the title is the erasure of the women's name in profit if her relation to a (presumed) male: she's not Amanda, she's just the alchemist's daughter. It's a trend in naming books too.
But now I see this whole thing is actually the subject matter of the book, so it makes sense to use this trend.
I'm from France living in Sweden and I've seen people not wanting to use self-checkout because it's used to cut cashier jobs. Where you'd get 4 cashiers, you just get one person watching the self checkout.
I'm personally ambivalent about because I do find it faster and convenient, but it is indeed a loss of jobs
Just like Rush Limbaugh no one will ever think of him again when he's dead.