[Nyororin]

This is some sort of a surprise?

Get involved in any sort of business catering to the public. Everything is this way. That is just how the world works. It`s how businesses work. It`s pretty much common sense in a world where the goal is to make money.
You never hear about products, companies, artists, etc who are only in it for the action itself - and for a good reason.

Even if a someone comes out with a perfect product (this can be anything from soap to music) that everyone would want - unless they think of making money as number one... No one will ever know about their product because they`ll run out of money making the product and will never be able to promote it. Which means no one will know about it, and no one will buy it - the end result being that it will be gone before it even starts. It doesn`t really matter how wonderful the "product" is. What matters is the ability to make money off of the product.

People who are good at introducing products and selling them will be able to get a cut for themselves by finding others who are not good at selling their product and helping them out (in a business sense). Gather a number of these people who have ideas together, pay them some amount to work with you to produce better selling "products" and.... surprise! You`ve got a company, just like every other company for every other product. Having a wider network of connections with other companies selling other products, and you increase the whole network`s chance of making money.

There is nothing sinister or "yakuza" about the system. Making money doesn`t mean that a band is less of a band, or an artist less of an artist. You have to realize that nothing is free - a band not making money cannot afford to even buy instruments let alone rent halls for concerts... In fact, a band making no money cannot even afford to EAT.

ETA; After finishing reading the whole thing, I`d really like to see a NON-TRANSLATED version, as there are things said in there that I highly highly doubt would ever be said in Japanese. :P