Millionaire Jeopardy! Champ Ken Jennings Joins The 99 Percent
Everyone remembers Ken Jennings, right? The Utah resident won 74 straight games of Jeopardy! in an unprecedented run seven years ago (has it been that long?). On his blog yesterday, Jennings, who pocketed $2,520,700 during his run, posted a photo of him holding up a printout of his hardships, in the same manner that people have been holding them up on the now-famous “We Are The 99%” Tumblr. It’s pure brilliance:
Remember 2004? A happier, more innocent time when a man could pull himself up by his bootstraps and, armed only with a humanities degree, support his family by winning 74 straight games of Jeopardy! in a row.
Then a huge multinational corporation poured millions of dollars into a computer that would demolish me on national TV, robbing me of my livelihood as a quiz show contestant.
Now I’m forced to hustle for a living as a “freelance writer,” like that’s a thing anymore.I am the 99%.
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