Everything in the show is an exaggerated one-sided story from Glindy and Jet's perspective.
Think about it. Glindy and Jet don't want to accept responsibility for their lives and they think everyone doesn't accept their creativity. When their parents try setting up a basis for their lives, they run away and go live with people just like them. They think that their parents and other people are greedy, boring people who are out to ruin their lives. King Norman is a financial experiment Gone Horribly Right.
Norman was created in order to find out the best ways for the average person to make money. He was given an ordinary personality, with one key difference - a single-minded desire to make money. His creators thought they'd dodged the prospect of creating a paperclipper - an AI that accrues one thing, and does it so well that it starts cannibalizing everything around it - by giving it normal mental capabilities and a normal robotic body. Then Norman quietly acquired the company that made him and sent all his employees on paid vacations to lawless regions of space where the ships they were in were remotely commanded - from elsewhere in lawless space - to eject them into space's deadly vacuum. With those nuisances out of the way, Norman set his sights on conquering one of the most lucrative non-corporate sources of cash in the universe - Groovenia, a planet inhabited almost if not literally entirely by creative people. You say tax, he says profit! The Groovenians was originally planned as a feature film
This would explain a number of things, like why there are big-name actors voicing the characters and how they got The B-52s to do the soundtrack, as well as the various plot points that are left hanging throughout. The decision to cut it down from a movie to a TV special/pilot must have been made fairly late in its development (and was likely out of the writers' control), and so the finished product feels oddly empty. Had the series been picked up, it would have ultimately taken more of a neutral stance on creative freedom versus work
While Jet and Glindy's parents are show to be going completely overboard in brute forcing their kids into soul sucking dead-end lives, the hipsters on Groovenia and anyone associated are presented as being bougie, carelessly lazy or generally spending their time doing nothing to the point that Jet and Glindy are put off by their refusal to take action or concern themselves with anything going on in front of them. Had the show gone ahead, they probably would have come to the conclusion that Both Sides Have a Point with the overall takeaway being that while you do have to pay your dues to society, you should be doing so in order to earn your fun and freedom, not out of obligation to a status quo. As Walt Disney once said: "I don't make cartoons to earn money, I earn money to make cartoons."