Comment by Gormo

Not really ironic, though. There are aligned interests and effective incentive structures involved in all of your examples. And your examples pertain to very narrowly-focused, objectively measurable outcomes.

Education is massively different. It's not a simple one-off deliverable, like making sure wires are insulated or water is filtered. It's something that's has different success criteria for each person who consumes it. It overlaps significantly with normative considerations and subjective values. And the current infrastructure that provides it via public institutions is badly distorted by perverse incentives, ulterior motives, and dysfunctional mechanisms of accountability.