But he also cares deeply about the sport and believes twenty/20 is starting to have a detrimental effect on test form.
Short of locking yourself outside of a motel room when you are naked, nothing is quite as distracting than sudden windfall.
Black Caps vice captain Ross Taylor became an instant millionaire when the Rajasthan Royals paid $1.3 million in a player auction to secure his services for the fourth edition of the Indian Premium League.
And half a-dozen of his team-mates did pretty well as well, including Daniel Vettori ($723,000) and Brendon McCullum ($625,000).
"Some people can win Lotto and continue on as normal ... others will be hyped up for weeks about it," Cameron responded when asked if the IPL player auction had been a distraction and had, perhaps, contributed to the embarrassing 10-wicket loss to Pakistan in the first test.
"I don't think I'd want to go into a test on a great high.
"Batting in a test match is hard yakka.
"You've got to be feeling pretty hard and mean.
"I'm sure some of these people are better players than their last performance," the former New Zealand and Otago bowler added.
"But I wonder whether some of them are thinking about what they'll be doing for the rest of the season.
"That would be easy enough to happen when there is big money around."
It is no surprise little premium is placed on the forward defensive these days, when it is slog sweep and suicide scoop which provides the most lucrative pathway.
A dot ball counts against your strike rate, and a player who can score 50 runs off 30 balls is a lot more valuable than a player who grinds his way to a test hundred.
Cricket is changing rapidly and players cannot be blamed for chasing the enormous pay days, Cameron said.
But the question was what impact it would have on test cricket.
Judging by New Zealand's loss to Pakistan, it is not having a hugely positive impact.
"It seems to me some of the playing styles of the limited-overs game are creeping in to our test play," Cameron explained.
"People get in the habit of playing the wrong sort of shots.
"The bowlers seem very impatient to get a wicket each ball ... and the batting, well, they don't all play straight.
"When you are making a name drop kicking the ball over mid wicket for six and you transfer that into test cricket, it does not work," he added, referring to Taylor.
"I don't know if he has got out of it yet but he got into a very bad habit of not meeting the ball with the full face and squaring up.
"The best you can do in that position is hit it to mid wicket or square leg.
"That is not the way to make hundreds at test level."
"I know a bowler who takes six wickets quickly can win you a game and [likewise] a batsman who crashes a hundred.
But in most games it is the little decisions ... that add up towards the end of the game."
That requires patience and it is a virtue which appears to be in short supply.
The new breed of cricket fans want to see boundaries hit and wickets tumbling.
It is cricket in the highlights.
"People who played years and years ago go on about it ... but things have changed and, perhaps, people are a little different in some ways, too.
"Sportsmen are, attitudes are and attitude has a big part to play in cricket.
"You've got to have the attitude and you've got to have the skills.
"Some of them [the Black Caps] have looked as if they haven't improved their skills much over the last two or three seasons.
"I haven't noticed any great development in the techniques of some of the players.
"And, as a bowler, I'm just not too sure how they are trying to get people out."
