Anyway, I think the false idea here is a person must own ETC or ETH, like you pointed out, ETC could be used like a hedge.  I personally believe ETC has the greater upside potential.  I also prefer ETC development path, and that they're more open to implementing the latest ideas into their platform.  Older projects like ETH get into a groove that prevents innovation during this period when innovation is what is going to set people ahead in the long-term.  As an example, the guy running the ETC devs was talking about a treasury management system like Dash uses.  Those systems are the future, but I don't see ETH discussing it.  Long-term, projects without a budgeting system probably wont exist, or wont be able to compete with the projects that do have the budgeting systems in place.

PS - I do own both, ETH and ETC.