Describing Location using Situation

Today in class, we learned that geographers describe where locations are using situation as well as site. Site is the physical character of a place, whereas situation is the location of a place based on its relativity to other places. This helps us understand the importance of a location, and familiarizes us with unfamiliar places by comparing them to areas that we know.
We also studied how places can be important because of their accessibility to other places. Cities with ports tend to be important and have higher populations because of their access to trade routes on the water.
We also learned that the reason so many products, like notebooks and clothes, are mass produced overseas, is because it's cheaper to make things in countries with no child labor laws. In countries like China, factory workers are often paid less than American factory workers, and don't receive health care or worker's comp, so American companies, like Apple, make a much larger profit by having their products produced in these places. To add to that, I'll mention another way companies are saving money and increasing profits: machines. Machines produce things faster than people, and can work 24 hours a day. They also don't require pay, and routine maintenance costs less money than a health care plan overall. Mr. Schick brought up a point that with more companies turning to robotic workers, humans are finding it more difficult to find jobs, and in the future, technology will be so advanced that many jobs will be impossible for humans to receive.