Thanks. I'm not sure what this means still or if it's even true. And worse, I'm putting question marks next to at least 5 named "empires" whether they actually were empires at all.

sounds like fiction and wishful thinking

Dalio should stay in his lane

some compression of several dimensions of “power” [according to Dalio](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chapter-4-big-cycle-united-states-dollar-part-1-ray-dalio/):

> the chart below shows the relative powers of the leading countries as measured in indices that measure eight different types of power—education, competitiveness, innovation/technology, trade, economic output, military, financial center status, and reserve currency status.

k00b

> better context here.

That has a tracker! And it is literally on the most offensive site ever. lol

## BUT DON'T SWEAT IT!

[Here](https://mdbin.sivaramp.com/p/c3ekmc20) is the actual text[^1] 

[^1]: extracted by [Mozilla Readability](https://github.com/mozilla/readability), markdownified by [NHM](https://github.com/crosstype/node-html-markdown) (no GPU ticks were used in this process.) So that other stackers don't have to scrape LinkedIn and get profiled by the corporate pukes and enslaved in databases just to read something that Ray Dalio wrote.

I understand that it represents the power or "status" of an empire compared to others over time, measured on a scale of 0 to 1.....!!

You can read more and get [better context here.](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chapter-4-big-cycle-united-states-dollar-part-1-ray-dalio/?trackingId=WggUwNsLTeaKKmJGTOi60Q%3D%3D)
I should have put the link in the photo

guerratotal

That does not answer my question, lol. And thank you for the unsolicited advice, I guess 😂