Do you think nowadays people seems to be less interested in saving their part of income for the future needs?
Because it's evident that people changed a lot, now the trend is to live in the present which is okay but it's necessary to plan the future too or else will be going down hard and there will be no one to help from that trap.
My opinion is that simply accumulating money “in a piggy bank” is not the right way to go.... But let's start from the other side.)
1. lack of financial literacy and understanding of what is the management of their finances, plays a cruel joke with most people, and it consists in the fact that people start.... “put in the piggy bank”... This means that over time, the value of the money put aside decreases due to the well-known inflation.
2. There is a more correct meaning of “financial cushion”. In the simplest sense - it is a certain amount of money, which in a critical situation, for example, will allow to live normally for some time. According to my concept, this time should be at least 3 years, because situations can be absolutely different. But here it is better to be reinsured and have a reserve for a long period of time.
In my vision, a “financial cushion” is a diversified stock of various, highly liquid assets. A small part - in local currency, to solve issues “here and now”. Another part - in conditionally stable currencies (dollar, euro, Swiss franc,...) - those currencies that you can always exchange for local currencies anywhere in the world (except for some very specific countries), to meet your current needs. And then it gets more interesting

The rest can be “stored” in gold, cryptocurrencies, real estate, shares of large and promising companies. Such a “basket of assets” will allow you to form a “financial cushion” that you can use at any time, and due to diversification - you will have reserves that will be minimally exposed to inflation, and with some probability even multiply savings, due to appreciation.