Earning money is hard, saving money is damn hard, getting rich and being able to live comfortably is insane.
For me saving just for short term, you can't earn anything and your wealth will decrease over time. People have to take big risk if they want to be rich, if they only take some risk or little risk, it's not enough.
The only way I can recommend saving to someone is if he is trying to save up to start a business, and by doing so it shouldn't go above a year, because inflation is one principal enemy to any money saved up, so the best way to keep your money safe from inflation is to store it in anything that appreciate in value overtime, something like gold, land, Bitcoin or real estate.
If you are a business man it's advisable to store your money in goods, use the money to stack up a lot of goods, as the price of things are going up that's how you will be selling the goods base on the current market price.