$3K net after taxes monthly is certainly high income in Sweden (almost second bracket of extra high income state tax). Most engineers here make around $3k pretax out of school. Your living wage example would be high income middle class in Sweden.
I ran the numbers quickly for $ 68k/year you'd be in the top 3% earners all ages in the entire country enough to put you well beyond the public pension roof, on the edge to put you into the highest ultra high earner tax bracket (70k).
So I guess a poor person in the US would be part of the ultra rich in Sweden and I'd be poor beyond salvation in your country, living on ~1.5k/mo while bootstrapping my company.
I ran the numbers quickly for $ 68k/year you'd be in the top 3% earners all ages in the entire country enough to put you well beyond the public pension roof, on the edge to put you into the highest ultra high earner tax bracket (70k).
So I guess a poor person in the US would be part of the ultra rich in Sweden and I'd be poor beyond salvation in your country, living on ~1.5k/mo while bootstrapping my company.