Maybe there's a method to Musk's madness... ...if the world (well, tbh, it'll be mostly the Northern Hemisphere, but it's still going to screw everyone in some manner) ends in ashes, those bunkers aren't going to be as effective at sheltering from regular people as Thiel et al think.
If you're hiding out on Mars, the peons would at least have to build a rocket to get to you when they decided to eat the rich.