Jebediah Brown offers the Lindens the benefit of his advice on the Linden Answers forum, which includes a link to his webpage exercising his thoughts about the "problem" of camping.

Campers, for those who haven't stumbled over them, are people paid a pittance to stay in the same place in order to drive up the traffic results for a place. Mr Brown assumes that all the lag problems he has can be laid at the feet of campers, without the slightest evidence that this is so. I have recently had problems in sims where I was the only avatar and between 3 and 5 thousand prims were free. Even Numbakulla, which is designed to be as lag free as possible, has had problems with only one or two avatars in the sim.

I don't like camping chairs, I hate the very idea of people being paid to do nothing, tying them to a particular site in order to artificially raise the traffic figure for the parcel. But I hate Mr Brown's solutions even more. One of the things I applaud about Second Life is the egalitarian nature of its society, and I shall vociferously oppose anything which tries to drive a wedge between the haves and have nots in terms of land and premium accounts.
The very notions he uses are simplistic anyway: I know of many creators who don't own any land themselves, who rent land in world, and contribute their creativity and ethusiasm to the world. Call me idealistic, but I think that may just be worth as much as someone's $9.95 per month -- most especially if that resident premium account doesn't create anything in world.

Just as RL, we all have our part to play. Some people have money and land, some people have no money or land, but talent. In SL it is possible for these two segments of society to co-exist peacefully, if only someone who knows best doesn't come in with half baked theories about saving the new people from a fate worse than boredom.

In any case, when basic accounts now join with no money at all, a few hours camping does at the very least give people enough lindens to be able to buy the great things at the Gnubie store or Yadni's junkyard. In some circles it is regarded as a right of passage, something that you do to earn money before you find your vocation, and hopefully source of income, in SL.