I think governments wouldn't lose importance per se, but politics would. Governments would be more of a logistic layer, simple taking care of UBI redistribution. Because the real battle today is who controls the printer direction. If the printer is directed to everyone **equally** the political battle loses importance. This is why I think UBI is the greatest weapon against socialist and social-democrats, whom I'm personally NOT a fan of at all. Simple because they destroy all reality and genuine production that people do in the free market. The moment you teach people that they can have a UBI, is the moment you remove power from all Government baiters. Race baiters, socialist, social democrats, greens, etc, etc. All the government lobbies we know in the world. If we create a Dividend that cuts from Government and redirects that money to the UBI, that's a way to get the people on our side. If we get the people on our side, we win this "democratic" game.