Jeff Bezos Mark Zuckerberg
Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are going all in on space travel and escape bunkers.
  • Tech companies have had a tough ride this year having endured a brutal layoff period.
  • But their bosses still seem fixated on escapist fantasies.
  • Mark Zuckerberg is building a bunker in Hawaii, while Jeff Bezos still wants to get people to space.

This was not the year for tech leaders to get caught up in billionaire boyhood fantasies.

It was, after all, a year in which CEOs fired 250,000-plus workers. By making layoffs amid the toughest economic conditions since 2008's financial crash, they desperately needed to rehabilitate their image as insensitive, out-of-touch, rich men.