>>212295338 (OP)Ironheart sucks, but this point is retarded.
Yes Tony was working in awful conditions with crappy tools, but the resources he was provided were still expensive as fuck, it's just that nobody involved had to pay for them. He dismantled several incredibly expensive missiles to scrounge up palladium, which is only slightly cheaper than platinum.
It's like telling somebody who can't afford a diamond "kids in Africa can get diamonds just by walking into a cave with a pickaxe".