It's not so much about "charging" for links. The issue is with value you bring to the end user, which is the web surfer, not website owner.
The point Google is making that most general directories have no value, they are a simple link farms made with the single purpose to sell links and manipulate search results.
Did you ever have situation when you are looking for something and all you get is link to directory, to another directory, and yet to another directory...
This is the main group who got the worst from google - sites with extensive interlinking among themselves.
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