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> Still majority of the Germans don’t invest their money and just let it depreciate in their savings accounts

Do you have a source on this? I live in Germany and most people I know either invest into stocks (safe, boring ones), invest into a house/apartment/land or similar, or are too broke to even save anything at all (most people).

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That's very european. Even the ones who invest in stock mostly choose US tech stocks to get some double digit growth.

Here’s the source( https://www.statista.com/statistics/1365598/stock-ownership-...). In comparison the percentage in US is more than 65%.

You must be interacting with young people because they have started investing after Covid with neobrokers. But the real wealth is with boomer generation and they just let it rot in savings accounts. Maybe things would change once the wealth transfer from boomers to millennials happens

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