capitalism begat both the chicken and the egg. end of discussion. capitalism also invented everything else. under communism there is no chicken or egg. if you are able to stuff your face with either chicken or egg then you should thank capitalism for having originated both these things. you might be thinking "but /u/ennemi, the keeping of chickens as livestock has existed for far longer than capitalism" and you'd be wrong, because it was still capitalism back then. we just hadn't discovered it yet. we simply did not realize back then that whenever we were doing something useful we were doing capitalism.