... An example of a location could be that a water mill needs a stream to produce so it must be located right on the site of a stream. Part of the production relations is ownership. Something can be fully owned or partly owned. Having ownership is being able to do what you want with your productive forces and having the power to use, destroy or sell them. The productive forces have non-human aspects like advances in technology, such as computers and machines. These things are invented by the labourers and used by the labourers, which makes it almost impossible for productive forces not to develop. The labourers invent such things in order to lessen their workload and make their jobs easier and less stressful. When the two components of productive forces, the means of production and the labour power, both grow and change, the productive forces therefore grow and develop ...

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