It makes me sad when perfectly reasonable grand prizes are described in terms such as "a mere $20,000."
Let's take the whole sentence in context:
a mere $20,000 if you win fast money, which happens maybe once every five shows. It's the win rate + the win value put together that's a big problem. $20,000 is something that's easy to spring on something like Millionaire; you can get there in as little as two questions, in fact.
For comparison's sake, I wonder what the weekly take is on Let's Ask America?