So, the actual use for merit points for those artists at the upper echelon was mostly to buy some good stuff from the company's discounted shop and to reward their subordinates.
In this aspect, Star dreams entertainment can be considered a very good company. They considered the welfare of both their artists and employees alike in many aspects. One was setting up an online discounted shop including all sorts of items ranging from everyday essentials to luxury brand items, in collaboration with hundreds of different brands. As long as you had enough merit points or money, you could purchase almost anything from this shop ne.
Not just that, these merit points could be converted to money as well, and the current conversion rate as defined by the company was 93 yuans for one merit point. And since the employees had chances of getting merit points just like artists -although much lesser in quantity-, this can be considered big welfare.