The biggest thing speaking for ETC right now is its ever rising hash rate (and ETH's falling). As the coin is the most profitable mine it will be hard to stop, on top of that there is money from the hack flying around, which will push the price up further. Unless a 51% attack is lurking within that... But does it it have the same talent and brain power behind it as ETH, no, not at all. What caused this situation is the hubris found in some part of the Ethereum foundation and people close to the project. Cryptocurrencies spawned from the idea of freedom.