Perhaps in order to have a say in the direction of the country, you need to have skin in the game. One of the original thoughts behind establishing a bi-camera

Perhaps in order to have a say in the direction of the country, you need to have skin in the game. One of the original thoughts behind establishing a bi-cameral legislature was that only (real-estate) property holders could participate in the senate. The idea being to prevent the masses from voting the property to themselves. Eventually, it was settled to give the senate to those who were competent enough to organize themselves into local governments/states. Still, it would be interesting to have a house where one man == one vote and a senate where one dollar == one vote. I'm not sure human nature would allow the government to be primarily funded by power-mongering but it'd be a fun experiment to try.