The measure of wealth in and of itself selects for people without the depth of experience in fields other than personal-wealth-generation. Due to effects explained in Piketty's Capital, it also has a secondary selection bias, preferring inherited wealth over entrepreneurial wealth.
Given the prior, that we do have money-in-politics, it makes sense to erode that bias in a minor way by having more STEM [ and poor but innovative entrepreneur ] people get involved in politics.
It also helps as a partial measure to reduce the power of the daily alternative facts, post truth media barrage we now face [ itself partly due to big-money owning the media ] - STEM practitioners are familiar with sifting facts from noise.
We should also solve the real problem - big-[old]-money in politics - perhaps by flushing the big-money out with little-money : a torrent of 27 dollar contributions from citizens.
The massive womens rally and the Bernie movement give me hope we might achieve this - but clearly the DNC itself is afflicted by the same cancer, and must be taken over by real/progressive Democrats for there to be any hope of sane policy in America.
[edit : clarity, intent ]