Why tripleS members can receive early settlements

They sell various "objects" by team and by individual member..
There are suckers like me who actually buy them... ㅡㅡ
But from a fan's perspective, buying objects is much more satisfying than buying albums because the settlement money goes directly to the artist.
As for what those objects are used for...
They are used for "pay-to-vote" elections.
It's for small-scale voting, like deciding the album's title track
or what they should do for their own content.
I see it as a sort of participatory, nurturing, "survival-style" idol project.