If you want to be in one of the clubs that badly, support the IEEE instead. Friendlier, cheaper, and not controlled by lawyers.
The ACM has a lot of cool people, and a few nice resources, but it's not worth supporting the profiteering it does.
First time I had to do with the IEEE, I was introduced to it being the "Institute of Engineers Exploiting Engineers". I guess that could be considered an improvement over lawyers exploiting engineers, but I'd rather have none of that exploiting going on.
As a dues-paying member of both organizations, you've seriously got to be smoking crack.
Comparing apples to apples of what annual dues buys you as a member, IEEE charges ~$200/yr (increases every year for the past 10+ years I've ponied up) for a glorified Gmail account that's internally spammed by the organization (and almost certainly mined) while papers still has to be purchased on the side for a ridiculous minimum subscription[1] of $19.95/mo to read 3 papers. ACM provides full access to their Digital Library[2] at the same cost and even offers lifetime membership for perpetual access!
[1] https://www.ieee.org/publications/subscriptions/products/mdl...
Their 2017 revenue was $70M, of which $57M was from "Program Services". Their total annual payroll was around $8.5M [1]. This is what the ACM is interested in defending, not the interests of computer science academics or practitioners.
[1] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/131...
As tends to become the primary purpose of most institutions which exist for any significant length of time.
In short: if you're an EE researcher, paying for IEEE isn't a choice; if not, there's no reason to join.
Portal https://learning.acm.org/
This year I paid around $250 for the membership to all the group I was interested into. This is 1/2 of my monthly salary that I get from my government. My government or university does not pay for this, they do not even pay for library access, I do it myself.
Plus I write peer reviews, for free.